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Oregon county asks for morgue truck as COVID fatalities rise

by Andrew SelskySara Cline
| August 30, 2021 12:09 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Noting that the COVID delta variant “is spreading like wildfire among the unvaccinated in our community," the leaders of an Oregon coastal county said Friday they no longer have capacity to store the bodies of those who have died and are asking the state for a refrigerated morgue truck.

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