Tom Habermann collected six bodies. They had come off refrigerated trucks, where they had been piled three or four high. The attendants who helped him, usually familiar faces, were strangers. The bodies were large. His shoulder hurt.
“It’s like a bomb dropped and nobody was prepared for it,” Mr Habermann said.
Such is the plight of a funeral director in the Queens borough of New York City that is the centre of America’s coronavirus pandemic. In normal times, Mr Habermann might conduct two or three funerals a week.
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