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  • COVID-19 has killed thousands in Idaho. Funeral homes are struggling to store bodies

    09/26/2021 12:35:05 AM PDT · by Armscor38 · 90 replies
    Idaho Statesman ^ | SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 4:37 PM | KYLE LAND AND RACHEL SPACEK
    Stephanie Garcia was scared to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But after the Post Falls funeral director lost her father to COVID-19, and a stream of new victims began pouring into the building, she became even more scared of the disease. In one weekend, Bell Tower Funeral Homes, where she works, received six bodies. Five had died of COVID-19. She got her first shot soon after. “That was a real eye-opening moment for me,” Garcia said. “That drove it home.” The number of Idahoans dying of COVID-19 is on the rise as the state goes through its worst surge of the...