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Jun 02, 2018

Hurricane Maria's death toll: It's complicated.

The Puerto Rican government's estimate of 64 deaths from Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as too low, so they decided to investigate.

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