The official death toll was 64
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html
That is from the slimes
If the official number is 64, which is still a lot but not 3,000 that is claimed by the MSM and the Political Puerto Rico Government. The 3,000+ number is counting people who died of a heart attack or whatever and they are claiming since they did not have power they could not have been saved. And since the power was knocked out by the hurricane, it is storm related. The numbers include people who died 6+ months out from the storm.
It is a little misleading and is only to pump up the numbers to hit President Trump with. Because we all know President Trump is 100% responsible for the power grid in Puerto Rico, it is not even a state and the local government did not give a rats rear end about it either until piles of money was being thrown around to fix it. Only then they cared and complained the contractor picked to fix it wasn’t chosen by the Puerto Rican government, AKA no kickbacks were given, so they were pissed.
The PR govt amended that to 2975 based on these “studies” which did not establish anything close to hurricane deaths...just death after the hurricane,which was based off extrapolating mortality rates into raw numbers. Very scientific.
“””It is a little misleading and is only to pump up the numbers to hit President Trump with. Because we all know President Trump is 100% responsible for the power grid in Puerto Rico, it is not even a state and the local government did not give a rats rear end about it either until piles of money was being thrown around to fix it”””
Several years ago the Puerto Rican government robbed money from the Puerto Rico Electric Company to payoff the debts they had incurred elsewhere. The Puerto Rican power grid was in trouble before the 2017 hurricanes and the storms only made things worse.
Puerto Rico was planning on the USA taxpayers to build a new power grid for them.