[Antoninus]

PA is 2899 (better than FL)
NY is 3111 (worse than FL)
NJ is 3288 (worse than FL)
MI is 2970 (worse than FL)
MD is 1984 (much better than FL)

Not sure what case you were trying to make.

Only that you were purposely leaving out the states that are worse than Florida. PA will be worse than Florida in a week or two. Let's revisit the numbers in March, shall we?

The interesting thing about Florida is that the Federal Government is apparently limiting their access to monoclonal antibody treatments. Are they doing that to other states as well?

[Owen]

Heavens no. I was annoyed by single digit death numbers from such a big state. Another poster just explained it, btw.

Of course there are worse states than FL. There are also 35 better. 36 since they count DC.

NYC on the Excess Deaths charts is pretty important. They were completely smashed in the Spring 2020. Total absence of measures. Then the place emptied. They have had Excess Deaths of near zero for the 20 months since, for the older age groups particularly. I think NYC’s mayor just this week begged people to come back. Quote was this city cannot function on 30% occupancy of office buildings. He meant financiall.

It’s hard to get Covid deaths if there is no one there to breathe virus.