“Hurricane Maria killed at least 4,645 people in Puerto Rico a study estimates”

1. Hurricane Moria killed at least 4,645 people in Puerto Rico

2. The article relate to the incident of New Orleans that evacuated ahead of Hurricane
Katrina in 2005.
3. Aime Cunningham is informing people that Puerto Rico’s death rate is increasing.
Hurricane Maria and its choatie aftermath in Puerto Rico led to at least 4,645 deaths.
That’s thousands more than the 64 official storm-related deaths counted from death
certificates.
4. The audience is the health department in Puerto Rico.
4.1. A third of those deaths resulted from delayed or interrupted medical care.
4.2 the audience affects the text because hurricanes are killing citizens and medication is vidle to
people who are injured and without medication it could increase the death rate even more.
5. The most relevant details in the article is the research because it is recent/crucial.
6. The most prevalent in the writing is logos/pathos.
6.1 “ The Category storm hit the U.S Caribbean territory on September 20,2017, bringing down
trees, houses and the electricity system”(Cunningham).

“From then until December 31, the death rate rose 62 percent compared with the same time
period in 2016…”(Cunningham).
“A third of those deaths resulted from delayed or interrupted medical care…”(Cunningham).
b. The author use credible source to prove her point
7. A theme for this text is lack of medical care/ medicine could increase the death rate more.
“...querying 3,299 randomly selected households form January 17 to February 24 about deaths
and medical delays….”(Cunningham).
“Damaged roads and closed medical facilities also disrupted healthcare, as did the loss of power,
which shut down respiratory equipment and dialysis machines” (Cunningham).
“Puerto Rican officials tallied 64 deaths from the storm, relying on medical examiners to
attribute cause of death”(Cunningham).
8. This helped me understand of how much damage a hurricane could do to a country and the
population
9. It would change the evidence to be a bit more specific
a. This would make the article more credible

10. Medical facilities should help the citizens more during a hurricane. Medical facilities should
help the citizens because it would decrease the death rate. Aimee Cunningham from article
“Hurricane Maria killed at least 4,645 people in Puerto Rico a study estimates” mention that a
third of those deaths resulted from delaying or interrupted medical care. This proves that lack of
medical care increases the death rate. Medical facilities will help decrease the death rate.