‘We ran out of morgue space’: Portage County leaders reflect on the pandemic

Rose Ferraro, the health department’s nursing director, prepares a bandage after administering the Covid-19 vaccine to Frank Hairston of the Portage County NAACP at the Skeels-Mathews Community Center on Tuesday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager

‘We ran out of morgue space’: Portage County leaders reflect on the pandemic

- Ben Wolford

By Ben Wolford and Lyndsey Brennan

At the height of the pandemic, UH Portage Medical Center had to reconfigure its morgue to accommodate the surge of Covid-19 victims. And they feared there would be more.

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