Speaking of things that fly Florida is changing its state bird to the mobile morgue
The state needs to inoculate itself from republican governance or the disease will advance to a state of total systemic collapse.
Isnt the Florida COVID death rate still lower than NY and about 20 other states?
Cumulative? Sure. But over the last month?
Hard to tell for a variety of reasons, not least of which is this: On June 4th, DeSantis ordered the state to stop releasing local COVID numbers. This followed prior orders that muddied the waters on what Florida's actual death rate from COVID was.
But a look at their case rate and death rate even from the data they have let out suggests that they are among the "leaders" in increase in death rate in August, though in total
cases per million people, what was once the domain of blue states alone now has red states filling the vast bulk of the top 21. RI is 2nd. AZ is 12th, GA is 15th, and NV is 19th - only one of those is a blue state. Florida is 3rd, but will probably pass RI for 2nd this week.
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deaths per million, despite the substantial "lead" the blue states had at the outset, when we had no real ideas what we were fighting or how to fight it, fairly soon MS and LA will be passing NY to move into 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Other similar "growth" is seen throughout the red states.
FL's official count has them 'merely' 19th, but on August 1st they were 26th. They've added 10% more deaths to their total.In that same period, NJ, which has the highest deaths/million in the country for the whole pandemic, has added
1 percent more deaths. NY, MA, RI, and CT are all under 1%. PA and MI are between 1 and 2%.
MS is at 9.75%. LA is over 12%. AL is a hair under 6%. Arkansas went up more than 11 and a half. Purple state AZ is just under 3%, better than almost all of the red states and worse than almost all of the blue states.
About the only good news among the red states with the worst death numbers are SD which had been 10th and remains 10th, reporting just under 1% more deaths and ND, a bit higher than SD, but not much. I would hope that the causes are being looked at (including reporting), because it sure isn't the policies!
FL is among the worst states for increase in deaths, Kid.
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