The actual Puerto Rico death toll from Hurricane Maria is 21 times higher than previously reported
A report to
"Similarly, independent researchers analyzing vital statistics data found that about 1,000 more people died in September and
The government had previously acknowledged the higher toll when a judge forced officials to release the death records after being sued by
Thursday's report, titled "Transformation and Innovation in the Wake of Devastation: An Economic and Disaster Recovery Plan for
"Because the resources available for response were inadequate for the scale of the disaster, the failure of the lifeline systems meant that emergency services were severely compromised and residents lacked electricity, food and water for a prolonged period. And with roads impassable, residents had limited access to medical care," the report read.
"After the hurricanes, people lost their jobs, schools were closed, government services and private enterprise could no longer operate effectively, landslides caused flooding hazards, and wastewater polluted marine environments. Older adults, children, individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses and women were all disproportionately affected by this disaster."
"Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous -- hundreds and hundreds of people that died -- and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering...no one has ever seen anything like this," Trump told Puerto Rican officials in October, when the official toll sat at 16.
"Sixteen people versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people. You can be very proud. Everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in
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