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A few months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, declared his hands-off approach to COVID-19 “.” Politico announced that he had “.”
But then came the hypercontagious Delta variant, which continues to hit Florida harder than anywhere else in the country.
The result? DeSantis just added another, less flattering distinction to his résumé. When COVID first surged across the Sun Belt last summer, the average number of Floridians dying of the disease every 24 hours , according to the New York Times’s state-by-state COVID database. The same was true over the winter.
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