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

[Zorro]

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

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. What went wrong? Is that a rhetorical question? (nt)

[SarcasticSatyr]

2. Trust me, the actual number is higher than that ...

A lot of sleight of hand is being used to hide the real numbers ..

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Interestingly...

...I looked at Worldometer early this afternoon.
During the worst of the pandemic, the US was exceeding 300,000 cases per day with more than 4,000 deaths. Basically, one in every 75 confirmed cases resulted in death.
Now, we hit 180,000 but with just over 1,000 or so deaths. So, less than 1 death per 175 cases.
Dramatically improved.
Florida is at an all-time high of cases, but not of deaths.
However, it's nothing close to a reduction of 233%. Using a similar comparison, it would have gone from 1 in 50 to 1 in 90.

Now, to this article:
I don't know where they're getting their historical numbers. Worldometer shows July 29 to August 10, 2020 to be over 200 deaths each day. For 13 days. Also, in mid January of this year there are 2 days at 200.
So, I'm disputing it a bit, but not the intent.
Their cases are at an all-time high, the US is not.
Their cases per death is better but not close.
So, while I question their numbers, I think it's fair to say something went wrong in Florida.

[Andy823]

4. What went wrong?

The "idiot DeSantis" doing what the "idiot trump" tells him to do. De Santis thinks trump can help him become president, when in reality trump is playing for a sucker. The more DeSantis listens't to trump, the worse things will get for him, and his dreams will go down the drain.

Of course trump will be happy!

[ZonkerHarris]

5. needs new management.