Why Puerto Rico's death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought
- Written by Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Director of Applied Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Hurricane Maria's destruction may have led to many hundreds more deaths than originally estimated.Ramon Espinosa/AP“If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That phrase concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria.
Three months after...