In January, King County had already noted 31 overdose deaths as of Monday—more than one a day.
As it scrambles to address a rapid rise in fentanyl overdose deaths, Washington state’s largest county by population is “struggling” to make space for all the bodies piling up in its morgue, an official said last week.
“The Medical Examiner’s Office is now struggling with the issue of storing bodies because the fentanyl-related death toll continues to climb,” Dr. Faisal Khan, the public health director for Seattle and King County, explained in a recent Board of Health meeting, according to conservative-talk radio station
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