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Cedar » 13 Sep 2018 7:25 pm » wrote:

Misty » 13 Sep 2018 8:33 am » wrote:It comes from a George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health study, but according to The Terror of Twitter that number was made up by Democrats.

So it came from a computer model rather than an actual count of dead bodies? Are you **** kidding me?
9 months after the hurricane the actual count of dead bodies stood at 64. Your computer model sucks.

A team of researchers spent six months poring over death certificates, speaking to funeral home directors and interviewing doctors to arrive at a death toll of nearly 3,000 people as result of Hurricane Maria's devastation to Puerto Rico, according to the lead author of the study.

“This was a scientific research project commissioned by the government of Puerto Rico and independently done,” said Carlos Santos-Burgoa, who led the study from George Washington University's Milken Institute of School of Public Health.

Santos-Burgoa pushed back on President Donald Trump's tweets Thursday questioning the study’s estimate of the death toll.

Without offering evidence, Trump said Democrats were involved in an effort to overstate the results in order to discredit him.

“We stand by what we did,” Santos-Burgoa told USA TODAY in a telephone interview, adding that the study that found 2,975 deaths underwent rigorous peer review.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/201 ... 288908002/