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Puerto Ricans knew the official Hurricane Maria death toll was fake. We saw too many dead to believe it.
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Residents of and journalists from the island have been saying that many more people died than the government would admit..
It should not have taken a Harvard study to believe the many stories of Puerto Ricans dying due to Hurricane Maria..
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