The NOLA body count is under 200?

[dalaigh lllama]

My husband just saw a streamer on CNN that said death toll in NO was about 160.
The past two weeks we're hearing about bodies in the convention center, the superdome, the hospitals, the nursing homes; we're seeing bodies floating down all the streets...and they've got less than 200 casualties in New Orleans?
I read that the coroner stated they were only counting deaths caused by the hurricane in the toll... so are they only counting the bodies found in the tops of trees? Drowning doesn't count? Dehydration doesn't count? Gunshot wounds don't count?
Is "someone" (let me think, who could it be?) purposely keeping the numbers low to cover their sorry political ass?
I can't find much about this on the net -- does anyone else have some reliable sources on this?