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> But why are new cases so low As common sense would dictate, it’s because enough people have either gotten delta or gotten the vaccine. Florida had the highes
by jasonlaramburu 5y ago
> But why are new cases so low
As common sense would dictate, it’s because enough people have either gotten delta or gotten the vaccine. Florida had the highest per capita death rate during Delta. Hard to see how their approach was a success.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoYou have no evidence for that. Florida has the highest per Capita elderly population in the U.S. except for Maine who has way less population density. Having a larger population of people who die from the virus means you're going to have more people who die from the virus. Its what common sense would dictate.
- jasonlaramburu 5y agoLet's look at it another way just for fun. 40,689 Floridians over age 65 have died of COVID [1]. If Florida had the same % of over 65 residents as California does (14.3%) [2], we would expect to see 28,245 >age 65 deaths in Florida. This would give Florida an overall COVID death rate of 201 deaths per 100,000 people. This is still higher than the actual overall death rate in California (179 deaths per 100,00 people)[3]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se... [2] https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest/ https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest... [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...