Haiti Death Tolls Climbing and Death Rate Could be over 100,000

Time Running Out on Haiti Survivors - Dionne Searcey and Kevin Noblet, Wall Street Journal. Even as faint cries continue to be detected beneath the rubble, the emphasis of relief teams is already shifting away from the trapped to confront a much broader humanitarian challenge: Helping the hundreds of thousands struggling for food and shelter across the city. The consensus among quake experts is that time is short to save the trapped. Still, there were some isolated successes. Rescuers Friday saved a woman who sang "Jesus will save me" just before medics cut off her leg to free her. But hundreds of thousands are homeless, tens of thousands are wounded, and nearly everyone lacks clean drinking water, raising the risk of a secondary wave of water-borne disease and death in coming days. In many neighborhoods, outside help hadn't yet arrived. At the corner of Rue St. Gerard and Route des Dalles, a law office has crumbled in ruin; on Friday a trapped woman could be heard moaning inside. The hillside across the street is a fresh, red-dirt grave for 32 victims. On Friday, U.S. military crews got the capital's airport working, and cargo planes delivered rescue supplies. But progress remained slow. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, for instance, floated five miles offshore, unable to find a place to unload supplies because of extensive damage to Haiti's main port.

For the Trapped, Rescue Is but the First Hurdle - Damien Cave, New York Times. Herby Amel’s father dug through the collapsed college building first, pulling out a body so he could reach his son, trapped 20 feet into the pile. But when a rescue team from Miami arrived early Friday morning, Herby’s left ankle remained pinned under a fallen beam. He was trapped, alive and awake, in a crevice just wider than his shoulders. The American rescuers considered amputation, then chose instead to sedate Mr. Amel and carefully pull him back through the rubble. It was 3:17 a.m., and the dark street was crammed with relatives and friends, their hands bright white with concrete dust from digging. Finally, “up” came the call. Mr. Amel, 21, emerged, a thin, young man with swollen legs. One rescuer wiped away tears. It was, by most disaster measures, a successful rescue, though being pried from the rubble was only a beginning, by no means assuring survival. Mr. Amel’s fate reflects the complications and struggles of the current aid effort in Haiti. His drivers were not sure they would find a hospital with room for him. With or without the amputation that doctors thought he needed, his life was threatened from toxic shock and infection.

n Earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Daunting Challenges Hobble Relief Efforts - Mary Beth Sheridan, Michael E. Ruane and Peter Slevin, Washington Post. The United States and other countries rushed more emergency stocks of aid and supplies to Haiti on Friday in an intensifying effort to resuscitate the earthquake-ravaged nation from a state of collapse. Like doctors working on a dying patient, foreign governments labored to establish a kind of life- support system that would bring Haiti back after the 7.0-magnitude quake that struck Tuesday. With 1,000 troops on the ground, and more stores of food, water and equipment on the way, U.S. officials confronted the staggering and complex task of reviving the tortured nation, where the unemployment rate was 70 percent before this week's calamity. The State Department said that a Navy carrier arriving here was carrying 600,000 daily rations of food, and that an additional $48 million in food assistance would be made available, enough to last several months. An estimated 100,000 containers for water are being shipped in, along with four water-purification systems, and the Pentagon said as many as 10,000 troops could be deployed.

Aid Surge Gets Going in Haiti - Tina Susman and Joe Mozingo and Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times. The leading edge of a massive relief effort gained a toehold around the Haitian capital Friday, with the U.S. military taking control of the airport and helicopters ferrying supplies from an aircraft carrier positioned off the coast. But deep within the city's neighborhoods, residents fended for themselves -- evacuating those who could go, caring for those who couldn't and putting to rest those who would move no more. Hundreds of doctors and aid workers and tons of supplies arrived at the airport, now teeming with traffic. U.S. officials said their goal was to land an aid flight every 20 minutes. Through the weekend, the U.S. military contingent assigned to the relief effort will grow to as many as 10,000, the officials said. As aid poured in, those trying to distribute it faced the challenge of punching through mountains of rubble, smashed cars and streets strewn with bodies to reach a population clamoring for help. Aside from a few police officers trying to control crowds at a gas station or direct traffic, there was virtually no sign of any authority in Port-au-Prince. The capital seemed remarkably calm three days after being devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, despite the growing frustration of people with no food, water or shelter.

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