How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night?
In today’s WaPo, Dana Milbank (my favorite of the great stable of columnists they have) asked this question in the headline to his column, in which he says, “Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consultant Doug Haddix reported Sunday that since July 1 (when the lifesaving vaccine was widely available), the 14 states with the highest death rates were all run by Republican governors. This included Florida (at about 153 deaths per 100,000 residents), Ohio (142 deaths per 100,000), Arizona (138) and Georgia (134). Contrast that with the deep-blue District of Columbia (only 27 deaths per 100,000) and California (58 per 100,000).”
There’s
more to the study, but just these numbers are enough to make his point very
clearly: Republican governors are a danger to the health of their citizens. However,
he never actually answers his rhetorical question about DeSantis.
I can do that for him: I’m sure DeSantis sleeps very well at night. That’s the most appalling part of it.
The numbers
These numbers were
updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, March
13.
Month |
Deaths
reported during month/year |
Avg. deaths per
day during month/year |
Deaths as
percentage of previous month/year |
Month of March 2020 |
4,058 |
131 |
|
Month of April |
59,812 |
1,994 |
1,474% |
Month of May |
42,327 |
1,365 |
71% |
Month of June |
23,925 |
798 |
57% |
Month of July |
26,649 |
860 |
111% |
Month
of August |
30,970 |
999 |
116% |
Month of Sept. |
22,809 |
760 |
75% |
Month of Oct. |
24,332 |
785 |
107% |
Month of Nov. |
38,293 |
1,276 |
157% |
Month of Dec. |
79,850 |
2,576 |
209% |
Total 2020 |
354,215 |
1,154 |
|
Month of Jan. 2021 |
98,604 |
3,181 |
119% |
Month of Feb. |
68,918 |
2,461 |
70% |
Month of March |
37,945 |
1,224 |
55% |
Month of April |
24,323 |
811 |
64% |
Month of May |
19,843 |
661 |
82% |
Month of June |
10,544 |
351 |
53% |
Month of July |
8,833 |
287 |
84% |
Month of August |
31,160 |
1,005 |
351% |
Month of Sept. |
56,687 |
1,890 |
182% |
Month of Oct. |
49,992 |
1,613 |
88% |
Month of Nov. |
38,364 |
1,279 |
77% |
Month of Dec. |
41,452 |
1,337 |
108% |
Total 2021 |
492,756 |
1,350 |
158% |
Month of Jan. 2022 |
65,855 |
2,124 |
159% |
Month of Feb. 2022 |
63,451 |
2,266 |
96% |
Total Pandemic so far |
993,811 |
1,366 |
|
I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)
Total US reported Covid
deaths as of Sunday: 993,811
Average daily deaths last
seven days: 1,040
Average daily deaths previous
seven days: 1,588
Percent increase in total
deaths in the last seven days: 0.7%
II. Total reported cases (as
of Sunday)
Total US reported cases
as of Sunday: 81,174,677
Increase in reported
cases last 7 days: 209,611 (29,944/day)
Increase in reported
cases previous 7 days: 332,034 (47,433/day)
Percent increase in
reported cases in the last seven days: 0.3% (0.4% last week)
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