Funeral Delays Continue After Winter Surge In COVID Deaths

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

BURBANK (CBSLA) — Many funeral homes across Southern California are still trying to catch up after being overrun by a surge in COVID-19 deaths during the winter.

“It’s the entire, you know, for lack of a better term, supply chain within the funeral industry in terms of, you know, getting a marker ordered, made, set on a gravesite,” Bob Achermann, director of the California Funeral Directors Association, said. “It just was so overwhelming that we’re still seeing the effects of that.”

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