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Puerto Rico hurricane death toll likely “more than 70 times” official estimate

In Summary : In Puerto Rico, the official government estimate for the number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria (the hurrica...

In Summary :

In Puerto Rico, the official government estimate for the number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria (the hurricane that struck the island in late September 2017) is just 64. But a new study from Harvard University, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, estimates that the true number is closer to 4,645—that is, more than 70 times the official estimate.After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, the island went for months without proper water, electrical, or cellular service. Alsom the island was briefly embroiled in a scandal in which a $300 million government contract to rebuild the electrical grid was offered to a company called Whitefish Energy under unusual circumstances. [...]

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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1315573

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