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There were estimates all over the place. Check out this WaPo article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/13/president-trumps-four-pinocchio-complaint-about-maria-death-toll-figures/?utm_term=.4c8524d9d1db

Wow! look at the comments there. Such insanity against the president. All the statistics were built using data that pits the number of deaths after the hurricane against the normal expected deaths. I would argue that deaths should only be tallied for those who died directly when the hurricane happened (such as drowning from flooding). Maybe put the stop date a week after landfall. Everything after that is on the local authorities to implement survival plans and accept and distribute FEMA relief. The fact that a million bottles of water are still sitting on tarmacs tells me who to blame for failure to protect their people, and it ain't the president. I feel sorry for US citizens of Puerto Rico that they have such corrupt leaders.