How Florida Ended Up Getting Crushed by Covid

Florida avoided the worst of the Covid pandemic for more than a year. So what happened this summer?

James Surowiecki
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6 min readAug 30, 2021

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The current story of the pandemic in the United State is, with few exceptions, pretty straightforward: while cases are rising most everywhere, hospitalizations and deaths (which are the things we should be most concerned…

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James Surowiecki
GEN
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.