The new estimate of 2,975 deaths, just like prior estimates of between 1,000 and 3,000 deaths, are based on statistical extrapolations that compare (i) the number of people in PR who normally die in the months being analyzed to (ii) the number of people in PR who actually died during such months. The elephant in the room is that most of those additional deaths were only tangentially connected to the passage of the hurricane, and if Ms. María Hurricane was a person she’d wouldn’t be able to be charged, much less convicted, of homicide for such deaths. A bigger contributor to those deaths (which often were cases of terminal patients dying a month or two earlier than normally would be expected—a PR Department of Health Report reveals fewer deaths in December 2017 than in prior Decembers) was negligence on the part of PR utility companies, the health system, the state and local government, and, yes, the families of the victims.
Spot on...only common sense.
Should the President have tweeted what he did? FL Republicans are jumping over themselves to disagree.