by Ilene Eng
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—San Francisco continues to face a drug overdose epidemic, as the number of overdose fatalities in 2020 was nearly triple the number of COVID deaths.
The city’s data reveals there were a total of 713 deaths from overdoses, compared to 261 COVID-19 deaths last year.
“Bad is an understatement. I would say it’s horrific, it is negligent, it is an epidemic in and of itself, and it was not always this way,” Jenny Shao, a freelance multimedia video journalist and San Francisco native, told NTD Television….