A woman places one of hundreds of shoes in memory of those killed by Hurricane Maria in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol, in San Juan on Friday. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)The Puerto Rico Department of Health released data late Friday that shows there were at least 1,400 additional deaths on the island in the months after Hurricane Maria as compared with the same time the previous year. Up until Friday, the agency had declined to release finalized mortality data while its investigators work with researchers from George Washington University to review territory archives. [Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria]View of shoes placed to represent those killed by Hurricane Maria in front of the Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday. The data shows a much smaller increase in overall deaths than those estimated by the Harvard study, which included surveys of thousands of Puerto Rico residents.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 23:14 UTC