And as New York City becomes the US's epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, "deathcare" workers are struggling to keep up. Dave Mosher: The funeral directors, the funeral homes, the embalmers ...

The coronavirus has ravaged New York City for months, killing more than 20,000 people and overwhelming hospitals and funeral homes. At the city’s peak in April, more than 500 people died daily.

Few words mark the bleakness of the COVID-19 era more than "Zoom Funeral." In another time ... of the deceased), went to Mt. Pleasant in New York, where a rabbi (in gloves and a mask) laid ...