Reducing occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2: A survey of changes in caseload and controls among medical examiner and coroners’ offices in Pennsylvania during 2020

The workload of a medical examiner service during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…During the peak of the pandemic, the offices of medical examiners faced numerous challenges, including limited access to personal protective equipment (PPE), insufficient storage space for increased numbers of decedents, personnel shortages and burnout, and limited or no engagement at regional or state level for emergency response planning and implementation. 3 Workloads may also have varied during the different stage of the outbreak and the corresponding lockdown policies. It would interesting to further assess the inter-relationship between workload at different periods of the pandemic with different backgrounds as regards stages of the pandemic and associated lockdown policies.…”