{"id":2045,"date":"2023-01-03T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:28:40","slug":"bodies-pile-up-in-china-as-covid-surge-overwhelms-crematoriums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/03\/bodies-pile-up-in-china-as-covid-surge-overwhelms-crematoriums\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies Pile Up in China as Covid Surge Overwhelms Crematoriums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-03\/bodies-pile-up-in-china-as-covid-surge-overwhelms-crematoriums\">Bloomberg<\/a>)  For five days the elderly Chinese lady\u2019s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky it\u2019s the cold winter time,\u201d a relative said last week at Shanghai\u2019s Longhua Funeral Home, recounting the ordeal as the family waited their turn to say goodbye along with roughly 300 other masked mourners, many of whom asked not to be identified discussing sensitive issues. While the octogenarian woman didn\u2019t die of Covid-19, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-08\/end-of-covid-zero-threatens-to-overwhelm-china-with-infections\" target=\"_blank\">explosion of cases<\/a>\u00a0across China is overwhelming crematoriums, making it hard for anyone to find an open slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"ozh cry F ygeMBo\">ozh cry F ygeMBo<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) For five days the elderly Chinese lady\u2019s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky it\u2019s the cold winter time,\u201d a relative said last week at Shanghai\u2019s Longhua Funeral Home, recounting the ordeal as the family waited their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-03-at-12.28.14.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}