[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Dead bodies are loaded into refrigerated trucks outside New York hospitals after 98 people died in seven HOURS - bringing city's death toll to 790 and cases to 36,221 - as Mayor de Blasio warns people may be fined $500 for not staying home
- The video shows medical staff loading a pallet of bodies into a truck at Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene
- A nurse in Manhattan also shared a photograph of bodies in a refrigerated truck at a different hospital
- 36,221 people in New York City have tested positive and 790 people have died
- It is the epicenter of the virus in America; there are 142,000 cases across the country and 2,500 have died
- City officials said this is the biggest deployment of makeshift morgues since the September 11, 2001, attacks
- There are also field hospitals popping up in Central Park and in luxury hotels like the Plaza and St Regis
- The USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship, will dock at New York Harbor on Monday bringing 1,000 beds
- Trump said on Sunday that if 200,000 or fewer died from the virus, he would have done a 'good job'
- He has extended social distancing guidelines until the end of April after consulting disease experts
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