As the global number of coronavirus cases soar, governments are enforcing contingency plans to prepare for a worst-case scenario epidemic.
Officials in New York City have even drawn up plans that could see Rikers Island prisoners digging mass graves to bury up to 51,000 bodies.
The city has plans in place for a severe epidemic with a mortality rate of 2.1 %. New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner drew up the plans in October 2008 by then-Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.
Titled “Pandemic Influenza Surge Plan For Managing In- and Out-of-Hospital Deaths,” the report details response strategies to a widespread case of flu.
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