Biden COVID adviser can't explain why closed California isn't doing better than open Florida

Fox News.com ^ | 2/17/2021 | Bradford Betz

[Beave Meister]

Data from Johns Hopkins University shows California has reported nearly 3.5 million COVID-19 cases in total, while Florida has reported more than 1.82 million.

White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt appeared stumped Wednesday when asked on MSNBC to explain California and Florida’s similar COVID-19 trends, despite having wildly different responses to the pandemic.

Slavitt said the virus was still very unpredictable and "a little bit beyond our explanation."

"What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance. And the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads," Slavitt said, noting that variants make it harder to predict.

"As we all have learned … this is a virus that continues to surprise us. It’s very hard to predict. And all around the country, we’ve got to continue to do a better job, and I think we are, but we’re done yet."

California has emerged as one of the strictest states in the nation, with Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, shutting down businesses and schools. His administration said it was implementing these measures based on counties’ ICU capacity.

Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has taken an entirely different approach. Though he took similar measures to Newsom early on in the pandemic, he eventually lifted statewide restrictions on the economy and prohibited law enforcement from fining people.

[Big Red Badger]

Let Me chime in,
Art,
You Nailed It!
The whole damn Nation is
Being held Hostage by this
And We are Being Strangled
Into a Bottomless Pit!
.
99 percent Recovery rate,,,
We Are Suicidal!

[Big Red Badger]

The “SCIENCE”, for Millennia Prior to WUHAN
has been to “Isolate” the
Sick,”Protect” the
Vulnerable and get on
With Life!
That Is Science.
What we’ve been Force fed
Is Voodoo Witchcraft.

[genghis]

It would be better if they just admitted that everything they think is wrong

[norwaypinesavage]

"What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance. And the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away"

In other words, "What we "know" is exactly the opposite of what the actual data says. The guy is either so stupid that he doesn't see the facts, or, he's a bald faced liar. I vote for both.

[WhattheDickens?]

Ping

[Wuli]

Bad cases are higher where bad cases are a higher proportion of all cases, and that happens where lower % of cases are mild or asymptomatic and mild and asymptomatic cases occur more often than severe cases when things are more open. Severe cases are most often (a) from someone with symptoms, (b) with close contact in close quarters, (c) over some period of time. NOT from asymptomatic persons; in other words not from the majority (mild and asymptomatic) of existing cases.

In short, I think Florida has greater herd immunity than closed California.