Report Links Nearly 3,000 Puerto Rico Deaths to Hurricane Maria
- Estimate surpasses governor’s calculation of 64 deaths
- Gov. Rossello ordered the George Washington University Report
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Nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans died due to Hurricane Maria, according to a George Washington University report commissioned by Governor Ricardo Rossello that’s the latest to assert that the island government’s initial tally severely underestimated the storm’s death toll.
Rossello’s administration originally estimated that 64 people died because of the September hurricane. But that calculation came into question amid independent tallies from journalists and academics, leading the governor to commission the university’s report.