https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzk7jm/new-estimate-puts-puerto-ricos-hurricane-maria-death-toll-at-nearly-5000

A new study has put Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico at 4,645—a massive departure from the government’s official estimate, which sat at 64 in December.

The study, which was published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved researchers from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Puerto Rico’s Carlos Albizu University, among others. The results were closer to previous independent estimates.