Puerto Rico faces another disaster: the coronavirus pandemic

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By Rachel RamirezMar 20, 2020, 3:59 am189 pts
Puerto Rico has experienced a whirlwind of public health crises in the last few years. In 2017 Hurricane Maria left roughly 3,000 dead and thousands more displaced, making the island something of a patient zero for a world in which warmer global temperatures produce ever more deadly disasters. Then, this…

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