DeSantis, Florida had the second highest death rate from Covid

[edhopper]

Last edited Sun Aug 21, 2022, 01:00 PM - Edit history (1)

(Deaths per 100,000) and the highest daily average deaths, 65.

For when he is running in 2024 and touts his handling of the Pandemic.


Sorry, my link disappeared

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/us-coronavirus-deaths-by-state-july-1.html

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Source?

[Claustrum]

2. Remember, they under-reported the number by a lot n/t

[MichMan]

3. Don't they have a much higher elderly population than other states?

That probably was a big factor

[Jarqui]

4. Some of his policies - like killing mask mandates, discouraging social distancing

discouraging vaccines, etc killed a lot of Floridians

DeGenocidis pimped Regeneron

DeSantis top donor invests in COVID drug governor promotes
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-4d0d18b24e0dd41de2424e19b3ed994f
And he promoted it after it was ineffective against Omicron.

Maine & Vermont have populations with higher average age. How come they're not at the top of the list?

[WarGamer]

18. FYI, Regeneron was highly effective vs Pre-Omicron variants.

[Jarqui]

22. Yes, if you took it early enough.

But that didn't stop DeSantis from promoting it after word got out about it not being effective on Omicron.

As well, the evidence is overwhelming that Covid vaccines helped people. Regeneron was another tool in the tool box - and should not have been as prominent a tool as DeSantis promoted.

Social distancing, masks and vaccines were in the tool box and utilized by the regions who handled Covid the best. DeSantis played those down - to try to distance himself politically at the expense of his constituents and cash in with his biggest donor.

[melm00se]

28. Median age

of the USA: 38.1 years
of FL: 42.2 years.

DeSantis' approach, supported by a good chunk of Floridians, certainly had an impact but age (and the underlying health issues of year-round as well as snowbirds) probably had just as much.

[DBoon]

5. FL is #15 according to Worldometers

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Arizona is #2, with Mississippi #1

[LisaL]

6. I am pretty sure FL isn't counting

all the people who got infected in FL but went back to their states to die from it.

[DBoon]

8. likely

but from a public health perspective having false death rate numbers is worse than having a higher but accurate count

[SergeStorms]

16. That has Florida at #3 in total deaths.

And with DeSatan's chronic under-reporting who knows where they actually stand?

[progree]

21. California is #1 in total Covid deaths, Texas #2, Florida #3

Exactly the same as their ranking by population.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Beaverhausen]

26. That's why you should look at the percent per population

Of course CA has the most deaths but per population we are way down the list at No. 40

[progree]

29. ✅I agree 100%.

[jimfields33]

7. If we are still talking coronavirus in 2024 then we are really doing something wrong.

We have to rid ourselves of this, way before 2024. The last thing we need to have is coronavirus still an issue after 4 years.

[GreenWave]

9. He was a covid vaccine denier and he had a donor

making megabucks off treating people with horrendous covid in the hospital, Death sentence needs to be charged with allowing Floridians to be exposed to a deadly virus in exchange for campaign contributions,.

[GuppyGal]

11. He shamed schoolchildren who were wearing masks he is a true smarmy scumbag

extraordinaire

[GreenWave]

24. Hi Guppy Gal,

Someone welcomed me today and now I shall welcome you to DU!

[Dave says]

27. I recall that

It was horrendous. DeSantis is an abusive bully.

[OMGWTF]

17. So does Trump. That fker is responsible for over one million American deaths.

Hanging is too good for him.

[GreenWave]

25. And the crap is knee deep around him and his litter.

Didn't Kushner intercept several million masks headed for the VA and resell them at a higher price?

[GuppyGal]

10. Finally a place where the red states are at the top of this list instead of the usual

bottom

[lpbk2713]

12. Last I heard, DuhSantis only releases Covid stats every two weeks.

Link: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2022/03/14/florida-limits-covid-data-to-every-two-weeks-state-says-via-meme/

And even then I'm sure he cooks the books.

Floridians getting sick and dying doesn't matter much to this asshole.

[keep_left]

15. Doing a Friday night news dump, and using Twitter memes to do it.

Sounds about right for the DuhSantis regime.

[snowybirdie]

13. He's already doing that

His commercials here for 22 tout his "freedom" from lock downs and mask mandates. Cringe every time I see one

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. That's in the seven days to Aug 21, 2022

Which is bad, of course, but pointing to one week in 2022 won't mean much in a 2024 election. 15th for the whole pandemic, here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[WarGamer]

19. awww you spoiled a good rant with actual... facts.

[FBaggins]

23. An interesting exercise in confirmation bias

The OP is just accepted because it fits our expected narrative.

Indeed, it appears that the first poster who tried to confirm from neutral sources was met with an assumption that the OP was correct and the state must be hiding the true figure from the neutral source.

[IronLionZion]

20. He may have lost some voters, literally

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. The Florida death rate is the reason I called this idiot DeathSantis