Plot it out, the data points are not all equidistant. There is a huge drop-off after Massachusetts / Rhode Island. While Florida is "ranked almost exactly at t

Plot it out, the data points are not all equidistant. There is a huge drop-off after Massachusetts / Rhode Island. While Florida is "ranked almost exactly at the midpoint", it's because it's part of a cluster of data points that have almost the same deaths per M. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi... Washington and below all have close to equal death rates, and marginal differences are probably hard to attribute to any specific set of policy. This, of course, should not detract from the commendable numbers we see in Utah, Hawaii, Vermont, Texas, Oregon, etc.