Originally posted by rogue06
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And the New York being hit early excuse does not wash. Both states had their first Covid patients the exact same day -- March 1, 2020. In fact Florida had two cases while NY had one.
New York got hit hard early. By the beginning of June, New York had 373,000 cases and 24,000 deaths. Florida had 57,000 cases and 2460 deaths. We know now that while a lot of this was due to New York's higher population density and more reliance on mass transit, most of it was due to the fact that Florida has warmer, sunnier, more humid weather.
Since then, New York has had slightly less than 2 million cases and about 29,000 deaths, while Florida has had over 2 million cases and over 34,000 deaths. Despite Florida's significant weather advantage.
And I'm sure DeSantis deserves most of the credit for that.
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