TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY LAURENT BANGUET: "Coffin stored in break room as Los Angeles funeral home overwhelmed"
An embalmed body, right, rests in a body bag on a gurney at the Boyd Funeral Home due to a backlog of burials at cemeteries amid a surge of Covid-19 deaths on January 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. - A corpse in the break room. Embalmed bodies in the garage. Boyd Funeral Home, a small family business in Los Angeles, is so overflowing with Covid-19 victims it has begun turning away customers for the first time in its history. "The weekend before I turned down 16 families that I couldn't do services for," said owner Candy Boyd. "It's sad. But that's pretty much how it is now." (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)