New Study Estimates Over 1,100 Killed by Hurricane Maria
Source: The Daily Beast
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has put the death toll from Hurricane Maria between 1,006 and 1,272which is 15 to 20 times higher than the governments current estimate of 64. CNN reports that the studys authors came to this conclusion by comparing the number of deaths in the months following the hurricane with the number of deaths that occurred in previous years, which is a common and accepted technique in demography. CNN also notes that the number falls on the low range of what was predicted by Harvard Universitys landmark paper, which estimated the toll as anywhere between 793 and 8,498. In response to the growing outcry over the governments extremely low estimate, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced a partnership with researchers from George Washington University this February, and stated that the government would not revise their total until GWs researchers published their results. Study author Jeffrey T. Howard, however, is confident that the true total is far closer to his estimate than the governments. They clearly were not counting all of (the deaths), he said. They can't be. There were just too many deaths.
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lapfog_1
(29,218 posts)over 4400 hurricane and aftermath related deaths in Puerto Rico alone.
so... how is this analysis so different than the other one since both use the same sort of modeling analysis (actual deaths versus predicted deaths based on historical evidence)?
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Thank You for posting this...k and r...OH....I forgot....The person in charge of the U.S. Government is a habitual, pathological and constant liar...my error...
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