Washington County Coroner Tim Warco released a statement yesterday criticizing the state for failing to provide guidance to coroners and medical examiners. Warco says that while the state has given him instructions on how to handle COVID-19 related deaths in a hospital setting they “have not provided the Commonwealth’s coroners and medical examiners with the same sort of thorough guidance for home deaths.” Warco says the state Department of Health and state leadership have not provided a means for testing and have implied coroners may have no role at all. In the release, Warco says he along with the Pa. Coroners’ Association, “proactively sought direction from the state leadership as to our role in deaths with symptoms congruent with COVID-19.”