Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar conducts rounds, an overview of cases for the day, with her medical staff of six fellow pathologists who will perform several autopsies on shooting victims and others whose cause of death isn’t clear at the county morgue in Chicago on May 5, 2020. (Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)
Long hours, strained resources and emotional overload: How the Cook County medical examiner’s office handled 10,000 COVID-related deaths
