Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052.
Source: MSN/NY Times
Homes were flattened. Power was knocked out. And all across Puerto Rico, bodies began showing up at morgues.
Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury but the government there has reported an official death toll far lower than the devastation suggests.
A review by The New York Times of daily mortality data from Puerto Rico’s vital statistics bureau indicates a significantly higher death toll after the hurricane than the government there has acknowledged.
The Times’s analysis found that in the 42 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm, 1,052 more people than usual died across the island. The analysis compared the number of deaths for each day in 2017 with the average of the number of deaths for the same days in 2015 and 2016.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/official-toll-in-puerto-rico-62-actual-deaths-may-be-1052/ar-BBGpPff
The Trump administration is covering a tragedy and failure on the scale of Katrina and to try to hide the President's lies. Remember when Trump visited Puerto Rico and patted his back saying that Puerto Rico should be “very proud” only 16 people died:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/donald-trump-puerto-rico-visit/index.html
The President also told officials they should be "very proud" that only 16 people died in the hurricane -- comparing the death toll to the more than a thousand who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
And even as he praised some of the island's local officials, he focused squarely on the positive comments made about him and his administration's response.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselo was called out for praise for "appreciating what we did." The island's representative in Congress, Jennifer Gonzalez-Colon, was thanked for saying "such nice things" -- and asked to repeat her praise on Tuesday.
"Right from the beginning this governor did not play politics," Trump said. "He was saying it how it was and he was giving us the highest ratings."
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dembotoz cuts away all the BS.
In no specific order...
* Potable water.
* Flush toilets. (No longer casting ones poop out the window, onto the street.) Thank you, Thomas Crapper.
* Vaccination.
Of course, Louis Pasteur had a lot to do with much of that, the germ theory of disease.
My best to you.
that they claim are a core part of their "faith." What's up with that? Why are republicans systematically pissing on the Ten Commandments?
