CDC: Wash. state’s heat wave death toll much higher than originally reported

As the region recovers from yet another heat wave, newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the number of people in Washington state who died during the record-shattering late June heat wave was much higher than previously thought. At the time, the state Health Department reported 129 deaths during the heat wave – from late June through early July. But the CDC reports there were 485 so-called “excess deaths” for that week.