It’s nothing like Katrina.
These people had no advance warning and even if they had had one, there would have been nowhere to go.
The media is not producing fraudulent stories about violence toward rescuers. The relief agencies would not go into NO until the military “restored the peace”. Even though it turned out it was all a media hoax.
The people are working VERY HARD to rescue those who are trapped and to assist any way they can. This is the opposite of New Orlean’s reaction at Katrina.
The rulers in Haiti are not refusing aid. The rulers in Louisiana did.
There are thousands of deaths in Haiti. There were a handful in NO.
I would like to point out to you that before the Coast Guard and other 'authorities' arrived to rescue folks, there were literally hundreds of citizens and Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries folks, using boats and whatever else that they could to render assistance and evacuate those that were flooded. They too worked VERY HARD, as you say.
Bears repeating. There were reports of hundreds of murders in the Convention Center and Superdome, even of cannibalism.
Turns out there were a total of 10 deaths in both buildings, one being a probable homicide.
But as you say the rumors prevented a lot of relief from moving forward.
To be fair to the media, they probably believed what they were reporting was true, or at least could be true.
Death toll estimates are usually wildly exaggerated, at least in the US, when there's a big disaster. On 9/11 there was talk of 20,000 being dead.