Earlier today Puerto Rico’s governor ordered a review of all the deaths that occurred in the U.S. territory after Hurricane Maria struck. Despite the scale of the devastation, the government had maintained that only 64 people died because of the hurricane. However, analysis by the Times and other media outlets such as Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism place that number at well over 1,000 deaths.
Those stories coupled with mounting evidence that Puerto Rico has vastly undercounted the number of people who died forced Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló to order that every death on the island since Maria be reviewed so an accurate count may be achieved.
