What Went Wrong With the Pandemic in Florida

[andhra_jp]

As of Friday, Florida was recording an average of 242 virus deaths a day, nearly as many as California and Texas combined.

Exactly why the state has been so hard-hit remains an elusive question. 

Other states with comparable vaccine coverage have a small fraction of Florida’s hospitalization rate.

The best explanation of what has happened is that Florida’s vaccination rates were good, but not good enough for its demographics. 

About 82 percent of people 65 and older in the state are fully vaccinated, about average for the nation. 

That has still left a relatively large number of older people — about 819,000 — unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated

And Florida is Florida: People have enjoyed many months of barhopping, party-going and traveling, all activities conducive to swift virus spread.

Unlike in places like Oregon, which is clamping down again, adopting even outdoor mask mandates, Mr. DeSantis continues to stay the course, hoping to power through despite the devastating human toll. 

A Quinnipiac University poll released this past week found that Mr. DeSantis’s approval rating was 47 percent.

Older people are also more likely to have immune deficiencies and comorbidities, making them more susceptible to breakthrough infections and hospitalizations, noted Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco

And some, though not all, data have suggested that immunity against infection has waned in older, vaccinated adults; the Biden administration has indicated that those people will be among the first in line for booster shots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/us/florida-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccines-variant.html

[hydusguy]

inka pandemic endi.. vere countries nunchi thousands lo vastubte..em testing lekunda

[mustang302]

Naaku personal telisina cpl fl vaca ki velli vachi..covid techukunnaru intloki gurthuga..!

[yemdoing]

We don’t want govt tracking microchips in our bodies . We rather take horse dewormer as god intended . 
 

—reps 

[futureofandhra]

my office coleague family got covid

[MRI]

1 hour ago, yemdoing said:

We don’t want govt tracking microchips in our bodies . We rather take horse dewormer as god intended . 
 

—reps 

maa jeevitham antha saadhinchindi emi ledu kaani reps meeda padi edustaam. We know everything, we figured the wheel of life.

—dems