Listen: Disrupted Lives, Delayed Care And A Revised Death Toll In Puerto Rico

Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney, on assignment in Puerto Rico, spoke with Mina Kim, host of KQED Forum, on Friday — the first day of hurricane season. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week estimated that more than 4,600 people perished during and after the Sept. 20 storm. A third of the deaths were attributed to delayed medical care or no medical care at all, according to the study. Varney has seen firsthand how devastation wrought by the storm harmed citizens of the island, especially the sick and elderly.

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<h1>Listen: Disrupted Lives, Delayed Care And A Revised Death Toll In Puerto Rico</h1>
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<p>Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney, on assignment in Puerto Rico, <a href="https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101865545/hurricane-maria-death-toll-in-puerto-rico-more-than-70-times-official-estimate">spoke with Mina Kim, host of KQED Forum</a>, on Friday — the first day of hurricane season. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week estimated that more than 4,600 people perished during and after the Sept. 20 storm. A third of the deaths were attributed to delayed medical care or no medical care at all, according to the study. Varney has seen firsthand how devastation wrought by the storm harmed citizens of the island, especially the sick and elderly.</p><ul><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/listen-disrupted-lives-delayed-care-and-a-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico/?share=facebook">Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/listen-disrupted-lives-delayed-care-and-a-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico/?share=linkedin">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/listen-disrupted-lives-delayed-care-and-a-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico/?share=x">X</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Listen%3A%20Disrupted%20Lives%2C%20Delayed%20Care%20And%20A%20Revised%20Death%20Toll%20In%20Puerto%20Rico&body=https%3A%2F%2Fcaliforniahealthline.org%2FMjgwMTc5&share=email">Email</a></li><li><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/listen-disrupted-lives-delayed-care-and-a-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico/#print">Print</a></li><li>				<a href="https://californiahealthline.org/news/listen-disrupted-lives-delayed-care-and-a-revised-death-toll-in-puerto-rico/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul>		<p><em>		This story was produced by <a href="http://kffhealthnews.org/">Kaiser Health News</a>, an editorially independent program of the <a href="https://www.kff.org/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>.		</em></p>		<em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://californiahealthline.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p>

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