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Collected Item: “Refrigerator Trucks line a street in Italy to Handle the Dead During the Pandemic”

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Refrigerator Trucks line a street in Italy to Handle the Dead During the Pandemic

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photograph

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Before COVID-19 took hold in the United States, we were all terrified as we read about Italy and what they were experiencing. They were the hotspot of the world at that time. This picture was circulated widely--it shows refrigerator trucks lined up in front of a hospital to take away the bodies of the dead.

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Italy, COVID-19, death, bodies

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8129959/Military-trucks-transport-Italian-coronavirus-victims-coffins-cremated.html

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The Daily Mail.com

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2020-03-19
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