Poor Owen. You still think masks stop the covid.
NY is interesting. Their huge peak of Aprilish 2020 derived mostly from zero awareness and skillset. Their subways were packed with no masks. And zero effort was being taken to protect nursing homes. So the Springtime 2020 disaster in NY was right there.
But even last winter their surge was much less. No vax to speak of last Jan. Their peak was still quite low, because people are not insane and they learned things.
They also had some residual immunity from the Springtime.
Now there is vax getting old and recovery immunity getting old and NY is not insulated anymore.
And let’s just put reality on the table. Politics get zero respect in this — and because of that let’s recognize that Florida is redefining covid death somehow and yielding bizarre single digit results unmatched by Mississippi, Alabama, Texas or other deep red states regardless of population. It’s horribly deceptive. Someone has to track down what policy change happened a few months ago.
Poor Owen. You still think masks stop the covid.
It's not a secret. Florida doesn't report a COVID death until they have a death certificate from an ME. Then, they report the deaths to the CDC for the date the death occurred, usually about 3 weeks but sometimes as long as 8 weeks after the death. Because of this, the deaths for "today" are almost always zero. Today's deaths won't be reported for 2-5 weeks. Check back in 4 weeks and I guarantee you it won't be single digits.
Here's an explanation:
There’s No Mystery in Florida’s Covid Reporting
FL was hit pretty hard by Delta and has a pretty high vaccination rate, and I think that will make Omicron a bit easier for them. The large elderly population, one that increases in winter, won't help.