FEMA head says numbers relating to Puerto Rico hurricane death toll have been ‘all over the place’
Trump had mocked one study that said that nearly 3,000 people have died from the disaster. An initial estimate found that 64 people had lost their lives.
"The numbers are all over the place," Long told
A study done by
Trump took aim at the study, tweeting that "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit
"When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths," he wrote on Thursday. "As time went by, it did not go up by much. Then a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3,000."
He blamed
"If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list," he wrote. "Bad politics. I love
Long told NBC News on Sunday that he did not know why the studies were done. However, he said it is important to distinguish between "direct deaths" and "indirect deaths."
"You might see more deaths indirectly occur as time goes on because people have heart attacks due to stress, they fall off their house trying to fix their roof, they die in car crashes because they went through an intersection where the step lights weren't working," he told Todd.
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