The word gradually spread in the community that the hospital beds were already full, and critically ill patients were lying on stretcher beds in the hallways.
The crematoriums were working around the clock because the morgues couldn't even fit any more bodies.
With so many patients, couldn't they be transferred to Maryland or Virginia? No way.
The two states around Washington refused to take in patients, wanting to reserve their medical resources for their residents. At most... they could help the capital cremate some bodies.
Besides collecting bodies, the National Guard also delivered some supplies, but the logistics were brutally unprofessional, a mere half-hearted effort. Every time the truck came, it only brought one type of item.
The day before yesterday, it was cabbage. Yesterday, it was potatoes. Today, it was lettuce... If residents wanted anything else, they had to go to the neighboring blocks and barter for it themselves.
