Excess mortality in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria estimated by community-based survey sampling

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Abstract

By December 2017, the official death toll in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria was set at 64 excess deaths. To verify the validity of this death count, a study by Kishore et al used a community-based survey sampling method to compute an empirical measurement of the death count. The study sampled from approximately 3000 households, then compared the estimated deaths with the vital statistics data from 2016 through the end of December 2017. The study method estimated 4645 excess deaths with a 95% confidence interval from 793 to 8498 potential excess deaths. These estimated excess mortality shows a markedly high estimate with a wide confidence interval, but despite these issues the estimates do indicate that the official death tool is a significantly underestimate of the realistic excess deaths in the population.

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Kishore N, Marqués D, Mahmud A, Kiang MV, Rodriguez I, Fuller A, Ebner P, Sorensen C, Racy F, Lemery J, Maas L. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. New England journal of medicine. 2018 Jul 12;379(2):162-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972

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WGS 84 EPSG:4326

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18.6006°

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-65.1610°

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17.8702°

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-67.3803°

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Hurricane Maria 2017 Collection	Christina Bandaragoda · Graciela Ramirez-Toro	Public & Shareable	Open Access
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Agency Name	Award Title	Award Number
National Science Foundation	Building Infrastructure to Prevent Disasters like Hurricane Maria	1810647

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New England Journal of Medicine (2019). Excess mortality in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria estimated by community-based survey sampling, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/a4f13037a03d4a8d951320850a837bda

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