Maria’s catastrophic wake is staggering
A new report by independent public-health researchers estimates that at least 4,645 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria in
Remember President Donald Trump’s visit to the stricken island in the storm’s aftermath, tossing out paper towels and telling Puerto Rican officials they should be “very proud” that hundreds didn’t die from Maria as in a “real catastrophe like Katrina.”
Think how many lives might have been saved if Puerto Rico’s devastation had been handled with the seriousness and urgency it deserved. Ask yourself whether Trump would have — or acted — differently if the American citizens who were affected had lived not in
A study published Tuesday in the
Researchers acknowledged their estimate, based on calculations from surveys of randomly chosen households, is imprecise and further study is needed. But the report, along with earlier reporting and analysis by the New York Times, paints a devastating picture of how people, particularly the elderly and infirm, were imperiled by long-standing losses of electricity, water and communications.
The power of a nearly Category 5 storm in causing damage cannot be overstated, and the fact that
Bad decisions by
Even now, eight months after Maria slammed into
Will more Americans have to die before their government wakes up to their needs?
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