Day 789: Taylor Hawkins' Heart

While initial reports and later snide elisions attributed Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins' sudden death in Columbia to an overdose, the current word is that he was as toked as the average drummer, and instead died of "cardiovascular collapse", apparently caused by a massively swollen heart:

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died Friday in Colombia, had a heart that weighed double the average for men his age [50], according to a new report.

Forensic experts during an examination found Hawkins’ heart weighed “at least 600 grams,” double the average of 300 to 350 grams (three-quarters of a pound), the Daily Mail reported Sunday.

While long-term drug use can cause swelling of the heart, the band is also rumored to have been fully vaxxed.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up a twelfth of a percentage point today.