Puerto Rico

 Washington Post: More people are dying in Puerto Rico as its health-care system crumbles - Islanders died of chronic conditions and covid-19 in 2022 at numbers that surpassed even Hurricane Maria’s toll By Omaya Sosa Pascual, Jeniffer Wiscovitch, Andrew Ba Tran, Arelis R. Hernández and Dylan Moriarty

But elevated death rates continued in the months after covid subsided, indicating a broader breakdown as the island lost medical staff and services and younger Puerto Ricans moved away, leaving behind a population that is increasingly elderly and facing age-related health complications.