Florida is the only state where more people are dying of COVID now than ever be

[Texacon]

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Zorro (13,083 posts)


Florida is the only state where more people are dying of COVID now than ever before. What went wrong

A few months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, declared his hands-off approach to COVID-19 “a tremendous success.” Politico announced that he had “won the pandemic.”

But then came the hypercontagious Delta variant, which continues to hit Florida harder than anywhere else in the country.

The result? DeSantis just added another, less flattering distinction to his résumé. When COVID first surged across the Sun Belt last summer, the average number of Floridians dying of the disease every 24 hours peaked at 185, according to the New York Times’s state-by-state COVID database. The same was true over the winter.

A few days ago, however, Florida’s daily death rate cleared 200 for the first time, and today it stands at 228 — an all-time high.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-is-the-only-state-where-more-people-are-dying-of-covid-now-than-ever-before-what-went-wrong-090001893.html

I wonder how many of them will bother to look that up?  Using SVP's favorite site, Worldometers, I find;

August 5th 2020 - 242 deaths.

Florida was over 200 in July of 2020 and has been above 200 several times. 

DUmmies believe what DUmmies WANT to believe.  Post a truth without a link and see what they say ...

KC

[SVPete]

Actually, looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ , the worst day in the current surge was August 10th, with 189 deaths. Daily deaths have been plummeting since that day, with the most recent 5 days all having had less than 15 deaths a day. I know, would that there had been none. Now, in the fall-winter 2020-2021 surge, the worst day was January 23, with 216 deaths. In the summer 2020 surge the worst day was August 5th, with 242 deaths.  So Yahoo! News' "correspondent" Andrew Romano lied, grossly.

Looking at the duration of the surges, the summer 2020 surge lasted about 2 months. The fall-winter 2020-2021 surge lasted about 4 months. The current surge may or may not be over - the steep plummet of the past two weeks suggests it may be - but if it is, it lasted just 5 weeks. So not only are the current surge's death numbers NOT the worst Florida has experience, but the duration of the current surge is considerably shorter than that of the previous surges.

Of course, as my signature quote points out ......

[SVPete]

I'll go a bit farther in my statistical A-holery, . Looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ guess where Florida ranks in deaths per million population. I'm sure good little DUmmies would ASSume Florida is one of the worst 5 or 10. In reality, 20 states are worse off, with New Jersey and New York being the two worst.

[USA4ME]

Summer is tourist season in Florida. Not all those hospitalized and dying are from Florida.

Florida has a large senior citizen population, a demographic that has been more affected than younger people.

The vast majority of these deaths are in the greater Miami area, it isn’t uniform across the state.

There’s more, but that’s enough.

Primitives comparing apple to oranges…… again.

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