Sentences with phrase «official death count»

While it's too early to quantify Hurricane Maria's toll on the people of Puerto Rico, anecdotal reports suggest the official death count includes folks who died from heart attacks in the aftermath of the 2017 disaster.

Today, the official death count has gone up to 45, according to a statement from Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.

Until Tuesday evening, when Gov. Ricardo Rossello updated it to 34, the official death count was stuck at 16.

It's not even clear how many people have died because of the storm, as the government's official death count of 48 is at odds with reports from the ground.

A prominent former senator for Puerto Rico, Ramón Luis Nieves, told members of Congress at a November 2 hearing that the government's official death count can't be trusted.

«In coming weeks, as Congress considers additional aid for hurricane - impacted areas, including Puerto Rico, the official death count will likely shape the scope and direction of federal assistance,» Velázquez and Thompson wrote in the letter.

Not exact matches

Though the long - term death count is still growing, all estimates are disputed among scientists, government officials, and international bodies.

Those with chronic health conditions who are dying for lack of proper care are not counted as official hurricane deaths, but the island's forensics institute reported 472 more deaths in September compared with the previous year.

So there may be no way for many deaths to ever be counted in the official toll.

The finding supports reports from several media outlets, including Vox, CNN, and BuzzFeed, that found hundreds of hurricane - related deaths that were not included in the official count.

If that's the case, then the death is counted in the official death toll.

Puerto Rican officials, including the governor, have repeatedly defended their conservative death count in press conferences with reporters.

The U.S. government, which stopped publishing an official annual count of pregnancy - related fatalities a decade ago, has had similar difficulties tallying harm that doesn't lead to death.

As a common cause of early mortality, public health officials carefully count when heart disease is identified as the underlying cause on death certificates.

Hospital - acquired infections (HAIs) affect more than 1.7 million patients, killing more than 99,000 of them a year — and many of these deaths are not reflected in the official «hospital errors» death count.

And that's just counting people for whom pulmonary embolism was listed as the official cause of death on their death certificates, say the study authors.

His calculation, 57,700 deaths, is 10 times the official count, which is around 5,000.