[C. C. Rider]

Originally Posted by rockandroller

This morning, went to

Florida's COVID-19 Data

Then did a little math, comparing tri-county population to state and nation, totals vs infections

sumter 128,754
lake 356,495
marion 359,977
total population 845,226

comparing total populations and reported CV infections

271 / 845,226 tri-county or .03%
0.00032062431 or .03%

14,747 / 21,477,737 state of florida
0.00536059615 or .07% Should be 0.0006866

374,329 / 336,056,200 united states
0.00011138881 or .01% Should be 0.0011139 = 0.1%

accepting that I did the math correctly

comments?

Numbers in BLUE should be corrected as shown. Once corrected, you'll see that the rate for Florida (0.07%) is not all that different from the rate for the US (0.1%).