. His 16-slot refrigeration room is over capacity. Other funeral homes have neared a tipping point, too.
As covid-19 deaths reach record highs in the state of 1.8 million, hard-hit areas are struggling to keep pace with the surge in victims. Some hospitals, funeral homes and coroners say they've been pushed to the limit. Some morticians have even started embalming bodies that wouldn't normally need the procedure so they don't have to refrigerate them, the Idaho Statesman reported.
Unvaccinated patients account for the vast majority of the state's latest deaths, which have risen sharply since the beginning of September, according to tracking by The Washington Post. Idaho's rolling average for daily deaths peaked at 23 this month - a high number for the sparsely populated state, where just 41 hospitals have emergency rooms, according to the Idaho Hospital Association.
Owens's office is holding coronavirus victims in an external trailer she bought last fall to ensure they didn't run out of room during the previous covid-19 wave. Hospital officials around the region are now leaning on her for relief.
It appears there are lots of obese people in Idaho as well👍
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