Researchers Are Still Counting the Dead from Hurricane Maria
August 2, 2018
(The Atlantic) – The one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria is next month. The island is still rebuilding, still preparing for a new hurricane season, still putting its power grid back together, and still dealing with the massive demographic, environmental, and political changes that have taken place as a result of last year’s disaster. And it’s still trying to figure out just who was lost in the catastrophe—the official death toll still sits at 64, a number we know to be at least an order of magnitude lower than the real count.