Does Florida have a better handle on controlling illegal alien entry than California? There has been talk of illegal aliens driving the high number of cases here (especially admittance to emergency rooms). If so, for the legal population most of the hysteria is unfounded (except for the elderly and people with comorbidities) and people can and should return to their normal lives.
Comparatively, I honestly don't know. I know we DO have a good number of illegals in FL; we see them in the hospitals.
What they say about hispanics (and blacks) being more prone to severe presentations appears to be true in my observations. So just owning to demographics, I would expect CA to be pretty busy. But I don't buy the panic porn about the system collapsing. And if it IS, WTH didn't they prepare for extra surge capacity?
Another observation: when things actually were pretty bad last spring, hospitals in the Northeast were desperately seeking travel nurses from all over the country to help with the load. My wife (also an RN) actually went back up to MA for a couple months to help cover. We're not hearing about any desperate need for travel nurses now (for CA or anywhere).
A guy who is a doctor in Calif called into Rush’s show last week and said the number of hospital patients in Calif is so high because most are illegals . They are packed 10 to 12 into a single household. They are reluctant to get medical help at the expense of being discovered and as such get sicker and sicker and spread it to everyone else around them.