Did thousands more Puerto Ricans die because of Hurricane Maria than the official number? (Arelis Hernandez)

from TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent · host WBAI 99.5fm, New York City's Pacifica radio station

On May 29, the New England Journal of Medicine published a Harvard University study that estimates the number of deaths in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria as over 4,600, more than 70 times the official estimate provided by the Puerto Rican government. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Jesse speaks to Arelis Hernandez, a politics and government reporter for the Washington Post who was in Puerto Rico the week Maria struck the island.

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