Up to 1600 unnecessary deaths in PR due to Trump's negligence

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home&

From the survey data, we estimated a mortality rate of 14.3 deaths (95% confidence interval [CI], 9.8 to 18.9) per 1000 persons from September 20 through December 31, 2017. This rate yielded a total of 4645 excess deaths during this period (95% CI, 793 to 8498), equivalent to a 62% increase in the mortality rate as compared with the same period in 2016. However, this number is likely to be an underestimate because of survivor bias. The mortality rate remained high through the end of December 2017, and one third of the deaths were attributed to delayed or interrupted health care. Hurricane-related migration was substantial.

I wonder what the results for Texas and Florida are?
 
Wow.

So they surveyed .00291 percent of all households and included deaths up to 3 months past the event.

Look on the bright side. That's 4,645 people that don't need their power restored.
 
What a bunch of horseshit. I lived in Puerto Rico for several years. Throughout my time there I remember tons of arguments about the governor (Acevedo at the time) and how he delayed deploying funds to upgrade the island's power infrastructure and road system simply because "a storm hasn't hit the island directly in years". A bankrupt island, bloated with too many employees and spending, hospitals on the verge of collapse, and then comes Maria and stomps the island into the Stone Age.

And this is somehow Trump's fault.
 
Tsing Tao said:
What a bunch of horseshit. I lived in Puerto Rico for several years. Throughout my time there I remember tons of arguments about the governor (Acevedo at the time) and how he delayed deploying funds to upgrade the island's power infrastructure and road system simply because "a storm hasn't hit the island directly in years". A bankrupt island, bloated with too many employees and spending, hospitals on the verge of collapse, and then comes Maria and stomps the island into the Stone Age.

And this is somehow Trump's fault.
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Coupled with the reality that not a single employee of PREPA (the Puerto Rico Power Company) did any hands-on work to restore the power. The thousands of people on the PREPA payroll are phantom employees -- not a single one worked to fix the power after the storm.
 
Federal disaster relief is meant to build upon state and local plans. As we saw in Texas. And even the Cajun Navy from Louisiana was ready to go to help out.

Versus the "nothing works in Puerto Rico even before the hurricane so when is the federal government coming to help us because we really haven't done shiite for ourselves."
 
Tony Stark said:
They are Brown people,of course Trump didn't give a shit.
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What did Obama ever do for Puerto Rico? Nothing.

Oh wait, he pardoned a Puerto Rican bomber killer terrorist as he was leaving office.

Way to go, Barry. You unleashed all the skills you had on to their situation. Nice job keeping the folks on the Plantation dependent on Washington.
 
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