“California is a much harder situation than what Florida has to deal with.”AdvertisementAnd still, California better controlled the virus. If California had Florida’s death rate, roughly 6,000 more Californians would be dead from COVID-19, and tens of thousands of additional patients likely would have landed in already overburdened hospitals. And if Florida had California’s death rate, roughly 3,000 fewer Floridians would be dead from COVID-19. Here’s how it turned out California and Florida took vastly different approaches to COVID-19, generating debate about which state fared better. He boasted of the state’s COVID-19 death rate that is 25th highest in the nation (California is 29th).

Source: Los Angeles Times March 09, 2021 13:02 UTC