A 43% Increase

Via Centro de Periodismo Investigativo​ and NPR's Latino USA​

Last week, the government finally released death figures for September and they said that there 427 more deaths than in September of 2016. They also showed that in the 10 days after María, there was an increase of 43% in Puerto Rico’s daily average deaths.

However, the government has not linked this significant increase in deaths to the hurricane and maintains the official number of deaths related to the storm at 55. The figures for October, when the post-hurricane emergency was still in full swing, have not yet been reported, nor November, as the majority of the population continues without electricity.

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