Truck loaded with bodies drives towards a burial trench on Hart Island, in the Bronx borough of New York. New York City could bury virus victims in temporary graves if city morgues are overwhelmed. Mayor Bill DeBlasio said earlier in the week that officials have explored the possibility of temporary burials on Hart Island, a strip of land in Long Island Sound that has long served as the city's potter's field. The city's 2008 Pandemic Influenza Surge Plan states that Hart Island would be used as a temporary burial site in the event the death toll reaches the tens of thousands and if other storage, such as the refrigerator trucks parked outside hospitals, is full
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