[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/CarmenYulinCruz/status/1001868052764471298[/TWITTER]
Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler got in on the act and said that going by Harvard’s methodology, “the actual excess death count could be as low as 793 and as high as 8,498.”
As Twitchy reported, researchers took one number — 15 deaths identified from a survey of 3,299 households — and extrapolated that to come up with 4,645 deaths across the island. That’s pretty sketchy. But that was enough for Sally Kohn to claim more than 5,000 had died.
NBC News has been tweeting about Trump’s tweets today and finds that George Washington University, which was commissioned by Puerto Rico to come up with a death toll, is standing by its research and its death toll of 2,975.
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040231553010475008[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040234948899287040[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040236066450677761[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040284670091579392[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1040321810393313281[/TWITTER]
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/201...eath-toll-in-puerto-rico-much-higher-at-4645/
... all fantasy and supposition - estimated, the 'risk of'
Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler got in on the act and said that going by Harvard’s methodology, “the actual excess death count could be as low as 793 and as high as 8,498.”
As Twitchy reported, researchers took one number — 15 deaths identified from a survey of 3,299 households — and extrapolated that to come up with 4,645 deaths across the island. That’s pretty sketchy. But that was enough for Sally Kohn to claim more than 5,000 had died.
NBC News has been tweeting about Trump’s tweets today and finds that George Washington University, which was commissioned by Puerto Rico to come up with a death toll, is standing by its research and its death toll of 2,975.
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040231553010475008[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040234948899287040[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040236066450677761[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1040284670091579392[/TWITTER]
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1040321810393313281[/TWITTER]
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/201...eath-toll-in-puerto-rico-much-higher-at-4645/
... all fantasy and supposition - estimated, the 'risk of'