Doctor Philip Huang, the director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, adds the number will rise after the medical examiner’s office completes death investigations in August.
“We know there are quite a few more that are still pending an investigation so these numbers don’t really reflect what the final count is going to be,” Huang said.
In neighboring Tarrant County, health officials say 12 people have died from the heat since May 1 with hundreds more suffering some form of heat-related illness like heat exhaustion, heat stroke or heat cramp.rushed in when a woman started feeling sick“It’s definitely been certainly a bad year we’ve seen in terms of hospitalizations and heat-related illness,” Huang said.
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