Name: 德州殯儀館被COVID-19死亡事件壓垮。 (Texas funeral home crushed by COVID-19 deaths)
Uploaded: 2021-02-20T21:40:33.000Z
Duration: 2 min 2 s

With little time to waste and a sermon blaring on the radio, Chuck Prior got back to what's become relentless work.

浪費的時間不多，收音機裡也響起了佈道聲，查克-普萊爾又開始了無情的工作。

Prior is the director of this small Houston funeral home, and ever since the global pandemic came to Texas, a state hit hard by Cove in 19, the phone has not stopped ringing.

普萊爾是這家休斯敦小殯儀館的館長，自從19年全球流行病來到科夫重災區德克薩斯州後，電話就沒有停止過響起。

Prior himself is often answering the call and driving to pick up the body of yet another victim of the disease.

Prior自己經常是接了電話就開車去接又一個病魔受害者的屍體。

As the nation's coronavirus death toll approaches the half million mark.

隨著全國冠狀病毒死亡人數逼近50萬大關。

Pryor says the number of deaths his funeral home handled in 2020 were more than double what he would see in a normal year.

普萊爾說，他的殯儀館在2020年處理的死亡人數是正常年份的兩倍多。

So far, 2021 hasn't been any easier as deaths have mounted in the winter months.

到目前為止，2021年並沒有任何輕鬆，因為冬季月份的死亡人數已經上升。

Overloaded hospitals want bodies removed quickly.

超負荷的醫院希望迅速移走屍體。

It's a huge risk for the employees, especially those that's transported.

這對員工來說是一個巨大的風險，尤其是那些被運輸的。

Prior staff is feeling the strain, and over the past year, some exhausted workers at priority funeral experience quit while others fell ill.

優先的員工感到了壓力，在過去的一年裡，優先殯葬經驗的一些疲憊的工人辭職了，而其他人則病倒了。

One of my guys at the beginning of Pandemic Hey died in April just wasn't feeling good, two weeks later, he's gone.

我的一個手下在大流行嘿死在4月只是不舒服，兩個星期後，他就走了。

His mom died a week before him, and he even know his mom died.

他媽媽比他早死一個星期，他甚至知道他媽媽死了。

Pryor's family has dealt with its own fair share of grief during the pandemic, losing his nephew and uncle and other extended family to Cove in 19.

普萊爾的家庭在這場大流行中處理了自己的悲痛，他的侄子和叔叔以及其他大家庭在19年失去了科夫。

But Prior tries to stay positive, saying he focuses on the present.

但普萊爾試圖保持積極的態度，他說他專注於現在。

I choose to take one day, one person at a time.

我選擇一天一個樣，一個人一個樣。

 Since the right along with prior a crippling winter storm has caused days of power outages and water shortages in Houston, straining the ability of hospitals to treat cove in 19 patients and isolating vulnerable communities cut off by frozen roads. 

自右沿與之前的一場殘暴的冬季風暴已經造成了幾天的停電和缺水在休斯敦，緊張的醫院的能力，以治療海灣在19名患者和孤立的脆弱社區切斷凍結的道路。

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德州殯儀館被COVID-19死亡事件壓垮。 (Texas funeral home crushed by COVID-19 deaths)

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