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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4711978" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p><h3><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3033" target="_blank">COUNT Victims Act</a></h3><p>After the category 5 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, the death count was originally listed as 64. Yet a George Washington University study from September 2018, by researchers at the school’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/projects/PRstudy/Acertainment%20of%20the%20Estimated%20Excess%20Mortality%20from%20Hurricane%20Maria%20in%20Puerto%20Rico.pdf" target="_blank">estimated the actual death count as 2,975</a>.</p><p></p><p>The significantly higher number was determined in part by including deaths determined to be indirectly caused by the hurricane but occurring up to five months later. The Puerto Rican government <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/After-Trump-s-Criticism/244512" target="_blank">requested the study</a>and officially accepted its revised death count, but the federal government did not.</p><p></p><p>Introduced in 2018, Sen. Harris’s Counting Our Unexpected Natural Tragedies’ Victims Act requested that the federal government conduct a study of how best to fully count the total number of victims from natural disasters. The provision attracted <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3033/details" target="_blank">eight Democratic cosponsors</a> and was ultimately <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr302/text/enr#link=D_1244&nearest=H9394508CA2E24F6A952447065236FCFF" target="_blank">incorporated</a> into the larger 462-page FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which was signed into law. However, the study doesn’t guarantee the federal government actually will adopt the new counting method.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4711978, member: 66082"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3033']COUNT Victims Act[/URL][/HEADING] After the category 5 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, the death count was originally listed as 64. Yet a George Washington University study from September 2018, by researchers at the school’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, [URL='https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/projects/PRstudy/Acertainment%20of%20the%20Estimated%20Excess%20Mortality%20from%20Hurricane%20Maria%20in%20Puerto%20Rico.pdf']estimated the actual death count as 2,975[/URL]. The significantly higher number was determined in part by including deaths determined to be indirectly caused by the hurricane but occurring up to five months later. The Puerto Rican government [URL='https://www.chronicle.com/article/After-Trump-s-Criticism/244512']requested the study[/URL]and officially accepted its revised death count, but the federal government did not. Introduced in 2018, Sen. Harris’s Counting Our Unexpected Natural Tragedies’ Victims Act requested that the federal government conduct a study of how best to fully count the total number of victims from natural disasters. The provision attracted [URL='https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3033/details']eight Democratic cosponsors[/URL] and was ultimately [URL='https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr302/text/enr#link=D_1244&nearest=H9394508CA2E24F6A952447065236FCFF']incorporated[/URL] into the larger 462-page FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which was signed into law. However, the study doesn’t guarantee the federal government actually will adopt the new counting method. [/QUOTE]
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