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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