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Video: Rows Of Shrouded Bodies 'New Reality' Under Coronavirus

An apparent mobile morgue set up outside a Brooklyn hospital is filled with bodies as city's coronavirus deaths top 1,000, video shows.

PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — Rows of shrouded bodies filled a truck parked outside a Brooklyn hospital apparently grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak, video shows.

"This is the new reality," a man said on a video posted Wednesday by @Crypto_Lo67 as hospital staff wheel a body into the truck.

The two videos and two photographs were apparently taken at Kings County Hospital. Staff in one video push a gurney with a shrouded body up a ramp. Another video shows staff move a body to make space for another waiting on the ramp.

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Together, they show a grim reality facing New York City hospitals as coronavirus deaths grow — there simply isn't enough to space inside the hospitals.

FEMA and the city have delivered refrigerated trucks to hospitals.

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Mobile coronavirus morgues have been spotted across New York City, including one seen in a similar video shot outside The Brooklyn Health Center. Some of them are parked on city streets.

Coronavirus deaths passed 1,000 in the month since the first case was confirmed on March 1. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said 16,000 New Yorkers could lose their lives.

The new videos by @Crypto_Lo67, who didn't return a request for comment, claim to depict people "loading bodies from Covid-19 / coronavrius in a refrigerated truck at Kings County hospital."

Patch confirmed through Google Maps that the video shows the area outside the hospital's pathology center.

A Google Streetview image shows the area outside Kings County Hospital where a truck apparently filled with shrouded bodies was parked this week. (Google Maps)
Kings County Hospital officials didn't return requests for comment as of Wednesday afternoon.

The man's voice on the second video intones a warning for viewers: "If anybody didn't think was real, it's real."

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