One Worker's Experience on the Morgue Overflow Shift

WNYC News | Apr 16, 2020

In normal times, Erik Frampton runs a boutique framing business with his husband. But in recent days, he has become one of the many temp workers operating inside refrigerated trailers across the city, many of them filled with COVID corpses. 

"I said yes," he said when the opportunity presented itself. "Without knowing why I was doing it, without knowing if I was at risk, without knowing what the cost would be."

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