This is not how fentanyl works https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/1298413074999894018

I’ve seen a lot of overdoses and spent a lot of time studying fentanyl kinetics. I also saw the video of George Floyd dying. The video is clear.

For anyone who disagrees with their eyes & ears, the postmortem levels of drugs like fentanyl are not reliable, especially in situations that change pH like asphyxiation.

Most importantly, it is impossible to determine a “lethal dose” of fentanyl in humans for multiple reasons.

George Floyd was awake, talking, breathing on camera. We know his last words. Overdose deaths happen slower as people slowly stop breathing.

Fentanyl & opioids take away respiratory drive & air hunger, & are literally used to prevent people from feeling like they can’t breathe.

What it sounds like is that the ME reported a “potentially lethal level” based on reference ranges (normal protocol) & said without confounding circumstances this could have been ruled an OD. I don’t think the ME is saying this is “an overdose death” & that should be the takeaway

Medical Examiner was just doing things the correct way for postmortems; don’t let the spin tweets and headlines paint the wrong picture here. He is not saying it was an overdose death. The above thread should show why they did not say that.