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cord-344715-i7qxe40b	Entress, Rebecca	Managing Mass Fatalities during COVID‐19: Lessons for Promoting Community Resilience During Global Pandemics	2020-05-19		.txt	text/plain	3742	198	53	This article concludes by providing governments with practical lessons on how to manage mass fatalities to facilitate and promote community resilience. For example, when one Detroit hospital reached morgue capacity, bodies of COVID-19 victims were stacked in empty hospital rooms, without regard for how those deceased and their family members expected bodies to be treated following death (Young, Carpenter, and Murphy 2020) . To address the issue, areas throughout the United States, including New York, Louisiana, and Florida prepared for mass fatalities by using refrigerated trailers as temporary morgues to hold bodies of patients deceased from COVID-19 (Hirt and Priest 2020; Similar to COVID-19, following the Haiti earthquake, the deceased were buried in mass graves and family members sorted through bodies to identify loved ones (McEntire, Sadiq, and Gupta 2012). Drawing from one of the author's experience during the Haiti earthquake, this viewpoint article provides governments with practical lessons on how to manage mass fatalities during the COVID-19 pandemic to better facilitate and promote community resilience.	./cache/cord-344715-i7qxe40b.txt	./txt/cord-344715-i7qxe40b.txt