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So I Brave searched “cdc weekly provisional counts of deaths by state and select cause 2020-2021”, and I got a useful table from the CDC that you may want to look at yourself. I summed deaths for all causes for FL and CA and divided by their population 39.5M and 21.5M respectively. Yep, FL has about 1.4x more deaths per capita than CA.

Then I downloaded the table for 2014-2019 and performed the same calculations. For that same period FL has … 1.4x more deaths per capita than CA. Maybe that has more to do with the age distribution of their respective populations rather than the wise rule of Gavin Newsome.

I don’t recommend letting journalists do your stats for you.



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