[cll]

The Washington Post modulates itself, surprisingly. I posted their first sensationalist article on the subject.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/02/did-4645-people-die-in-hurricane-maria-nope/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fcb691cb1ba5

[AndyJackson]

Harvard basically determined the number through an opinion poll of a small number of households extrapolated to the whole island, ignoring the documentary evidence available. Other studies, which came up with just a fraction of the Harvard number counted the stack of death certificates.

To justify the Harvard methodology you would first have to demonstrate that there is a statistically significant number deaths (e.g. corpus delecti) for which no death certificate was provided.