Videos of open mas graves in New York.
Drone footage shows coffins stacked in a pit in the city, as the state logs more cases than any country.
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"The city cemetery on Hart Island is indeed tragic. It has been for the past 151 years.
"Since 1869, prison labor has been used to bury unclaimed and unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves of 150 adults or 1000 infants," states the
Hart Island Project website. Families of those buried there were only allowed to start visiting in 2014.
"Since 1980, 68,955 people have been buried in mass graves on Hart Island," notes the Project, which is dedicated to telling stories of those laid to rest there.
That's around 1,724 people per year, 33 per week, or a little under five per day for the past 40 years. New York City Department of Corrections spokesman Jason Kersten puts the average a little lower,
telling Reuters that prison laborers bury around 25 bodies on Hart Island each week."
Century-and-a-half-old Bronx burial site sparks panic on social media. The COVID-19 death toll in New York City right now is chilling (more than 4,400 at
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