Refrigerated Morgues Have Come to COVID-Battered Houston

HOUSTON—At one hospital, patients were being rejected from overflowing emergency rooms after waiting upwards of 24 hours. Across town, another facility was stockpiling refrigerated trailers for temporary storage in anticipation of a surge of the dead. Early this week, officials estimated COVID-19 patients accounted for half of the intensive care unit population in Texas’ Harris County, the third-largest county in the United States, which…