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Comedia de errores: Gobierno mantiene su cifra oficial de 64 muertes

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“¿O sea, que no se modifica la cifra oficial de 64?” – Omaya Sosa Pascual

“Al momento, no”. – Oficial de prensa del Departamento de Seguridad Pública, Karixia Ortiz

El Gobierno de Puerto Rico lo hizo otra vez. Lejos de abonar a la transparencia y a la claridad en el   delicado tema de las muertes relacionadas con el huracán María, publicó una confusa declaración de dos oraciones en el borrador del Plan de recuperación económica y de desastres dando a entender que la absurda cifra de 64 víctimas mortales había sido revisada en junio para aumentarla a 1,427. Es falso que hubo tal revisión. No existe una nueva lista oficial de nombres de fallecidos por la tormenta.

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CPI+CNN Investigation: Records suggest Puerto Rico saw a leptospirosis outbreak after Hurricane Maria — but officials won’t call it that

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Puerto Rico’s own records list so many cases of the bacterial disease leptospirosis that officials should have declared an “epidemic” or an “outbreak” after Hurricane Maria instead of denying that one occurred, according to seven medical experts who reviewed previously unreleased data for CNN and the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI). A Puerto Rico mortality database — which CNN and CPI sued the island’s Demographic Registry to obtain — lists 26 deaths in the six months after Hurricane Maria that were labeled by clinicians as “caused” by leptospirosis, a bacterial illness known to spread through water and soil, especially in the aftermath of storms. That’s more than twice the number of deaths as were listed in Puerto Rico the previous year, according to an analysis of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) records. “Twenty-six deaths attributed to leptospirosis — that’s extraordinary,” said Dr. Joseph Vinetz, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego and an expert on the disease, who reviewed the data. “There’s no other way of putting it … The numbers are huge.”

Puerto Rico’s Health Department attributed only four leptospirosis deaths to Hurricane Maria until June 22 — when it added two more after CNN and CPI asked about the 26 deaths. Officials maintained that the timing was related to laboratory tests and not questions from reporters.

Actualidad

Investigación CPI+CNN: Puerto Rico tuvo un brote de leptospirosis tras el huracán María, pero el gobierno no lo dice

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El gobierno de Puerto Rico registró tantos casos de leptospirosis después del huracán María según sus propios récords, que debió de haber declarado una epidemia o un brote, en lugar de negar que esto ocurrió, según siete expertos en medicina que revisaron datos inéditos para el Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) y CNN.

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Puerto Rico Government Did Not Prevent Most Hurricane María-Related Deaths

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Nobody has to prove to Jazmín Cruz-Corporán that the Puerto Rico government did not have a response plan for a massive public health emergency like Hurricane María. She is certain there were serious problems at the hospitals and health facilities before the phenomenon devastated the island. The woman lived her own nightmare at the Ryder Hospital in Humacao, where her father began the slow and painful path toward death. Gaspar Cruz-Agosto was admitted to the institution on Aug. 30 for diverticulitis.

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Huracanes exponen décadas de negligencia gubernamental en la preparación para el cambio climático en el Caribe

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Ahora el impacto concreto del aumento del nivel del mar y de las temperaturas, y los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos no son una proyección futura, sino una dura realidad. La investigación regional de CPI documentó que ya están ocurriendo inundaciones continuas, desplazamientos de poblaciones, pérdida significativa de costas e impactos sobre negocios turísticos en lugares como Puerto Rico, BVI, USVI, Dominica, Panamá, República Dominicana y Haití.