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about the high toll Puerto Rico is paying in both money and lives for the triple disasters

of Hurricane Maria, colonialism and disaster capitalism.

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with our call to action featuring the disaster relief work of mutual aid disaster relief

for M.A.R.D.

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A stunning new report by researchers at Harvard has revealed the death toll from Hurricane

Maria may be 70 times higher than the official count.

The official death toll still stands at 64.

But the new research says the death toll is at least 4,645 and perhaps as many as 5,740.

The Harvard study was published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

President Trump has so far not responded to the new study but in October during a visit

to Puerto Rico, Trump boasted about the low official death count.

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