Topic - Cook County Medical Examiner’S Office

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In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020, photo, Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar, dawns personal protective equipment as she prepares to perform four autopsies in as many hours at the county morgue in Chicago. Arunkumar starts her day with a numbers problem. It's how to manage a tripling of death cases with the same number of pathologists and the same number of hours in a day as before COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

AP Exclusive: Chicago morgue coping despite surge in deaths

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press