While people tend to focus on the direct casualties after a major hurricane, it is the indirect deaths that often claim the most lives. Hurricane Ian's indirect deaths could number in the thousands.
Florida District Medical Examiners show 55 deaths in Lee County attributed to Hurricane Ian. There were 122 such deaths across the rest of Florida from the storm.
The death toll from Hurricane Ian is currently at 112. More than 70 of those deaths are still the drownings that occurred amid the storm surge and flooding Ian unleashed across the state. But the deaths that keep inching the toll upward are now the indirect ones.