Due to or during?
Due to or during?
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They are saying due to as I understand their info.
snip from the article
Researchers in the mainland United States and Puerto Rico, led by scientists
at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, calculated the number of deaths by surveying almost 3,300
randomly chosen households across the island and comparing the estimated
post-hurricane death rate to the mortality rate for the year before. Their
surveys indicated that the mortality rate was 14.3 deaths per 1,000 residents
from Sept. 20 through Dec. 31, 2017, a 62 percent increase in the mortality
rate compared with 2016, or 4,645 “excess deaths.”