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05-30-2018, 02:02 PM
The death count for Hurricane Maria, currently at 64, may be off by thousands
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The Puerto Rican government has a list of 64 dead (https://www.telemundopr.com/noticias/destacados/Aumentan-a-64-las-muertes-por-el-huracan-Maria-463005263.html) from Hurricane Maria, the tropical cyclone that hit the island in September 2017. *
This number, however, is "highly uncertain" (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152017_Maria.pdf) notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A new study published (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home&) Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine puts that number at an estimated 4,645 — 70 times higher than the official estimate.*
"Our results indicate that the official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria," write the authors, led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/29/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-count-underestimated/)
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The Puerto Rican government has a list of 64 dead (https://www.telemundopr.com/noticias/destacados/Aumentan-a-64-las-muertes-por-el-huracan-Maria-463005263.html) from Hurricane Maria, the tropical cyclone that hit the island in September 2017. *
This number, however, is "highly uncertain" (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152017_Maria.pdf) notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A new study published (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home&) Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine puts that number at an estimated 4,645 — 70 times higher than the official estimate.*
"Our results indicate that the official death count of 64 is a substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after Hurricane Maria," write the authors, led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/29/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-count-underestimated/)
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