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Health officials: State COVID-19 death toll may be higher

by Associated Press
| May 23, 2020 12:03 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state's death toll from the coronavirus could be two to three times the current total because some people who died of virus-like symptoms early in the outbreak were never tested, health officials said Thursday.

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