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As hurricane season begins this week, experts are still trying to count the number of deaths caused by last year\u2019s devastating Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The latest estimate: roughly 4,600, many of them from delayed medical care. As hurricane season begins this week, experts are still trying to count the number of deaths caused by last year\u2019s 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\nResidents of Puerto Rico died at a significantly higher rate during the three months after the hurricane than they did in the previous year, according to the results of a new study by a group of independent researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions.
\nThe researchers say their estimate, published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, remains imprecise, with more definitive studies still to come. But the findings, which used methods that have not been previously applied to this disaster, are important amid widespread concerns that the government\u2019s tally of the dead, 64, was a dramatic undercount.
\nWinds, flooding and landslides swept away homes and knocked out power, water and cellular service, which remained largely unrepaired for months.
\nAn analysis of vital statistics by The New York Times last December found that 1,052 more people than usual died across the island in the 42 days after the storm. Other news organizations, including Puerto Rico\u2019s Center for Investigative Journalism, CNN, Buzzfeed and Alexis Ra\u00fal Santos, a demographer at Penn State, have also challenged the government\u2019s figure, finding evidence for hundreds of excess deaths in the weeks after the hurricane.
\nResearchers for this latest study visited more than 3,000 residences across the island and interviewed their occupants, who reported that 38 people living in their households had died between Sept. 20, when Hurricane Maria struck, and the end of 2017. That toll, converted into a mortality rate, was extrapolated to the larger population and compared with official statistics from the same period in 2016.
\nBecause the number of households surveyed was relatively small in comparison to the population\u2019s size, the true number of deaths beyond what was expected could range from about 800 to more than 8,000 people, the researchers\u2019 calculations show. The toll exceeded previous estimates, researchers said, in part because they looked at a longer time period.
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\nTo read the complete story:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/29\/us\/puerto-rico-deaths-hurricane.html?emc=edit_na_20180529&nl=breaking-news&nlid=58435508ing-news&ref=headline<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"