Good fact-check -- in the Washington Post! -- about that paper on Puerto Rico hurricane deaths. Rev was right again! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/02/did-4645-people-die-in-hurricane-maria-nope/ …
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Given that, and the iffiness of this estimate, the smart money is on something like 'probably in the 1,000-1,500 range, and this sample was mostly a fluke'.
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But newspapers thrive on scary nonsense, so they're going to jettison the consensus in favor of the biggest number.
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Also note: "three died directly from medical complications, illness or trauma because of the hurricane, and 12 died because of the interruption of medical services in the aftermath". Some/a lot of those people were probably near death already. Maybe this moved it up a few months.
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