As morgues overflow, New York struggles with COVID-19 dead

Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America's coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead.

Due to a surge in deaths caused by the Coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerator trucks as makeshift morgues in New York City.

The trucks are storing bodies that are accumulating too quickly for funeral directors to pick them up directly from hospitals.

Medical workers wearing personal protective gear remove a body from a refrigerator truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital.

Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital.

Bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York.

A body is moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn.

Bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital.

A body is moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital.

A medical worker approaches a refrigerator truck being used as a morgue outside of Brooklyn Hospital Center amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A medical worker approaches a refrigerator truck being used as a morgue outside of Brooklyn Hospital Center amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A hearse arrives to transport a body from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital.

A vehicle moves a body from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital.

Bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn.

Two refrigerated trucks are seen outside the Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City.