Know how Chicago morgue copes despite surge in virus deaths
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According to figures updated Tuesday, the Chicago morgue has handled 5,323 cases already this year, 2,551 of them COVID-19 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus death in mid-March. It had 6,254 deaths for all of 2019. 18 pathologists working at the morgue have sometimes worked 12-hour days, seven days a week.