Destroyed homes sit surrounded by debris from Hurricane Maria in this aerial photograph taken above La Perla in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg) – Some 1,139 people are likely to have perished after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, far more than the official death count of 64, according to a Pennsylvania State University study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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