Politico: Gov. DeSantis Looks More Accurate Than the Andrew-Cuomo-Adoring Media
By Tim Graham | May 16, 2020 8:49 PM EDT
A month ago, Politico was one of those harsh critics. On Thursday night, Caputo and his colleague Renuka Rayasam summarized Florida was not a "post-apocalyptic hellscape":
Florida just doesn’t look nearly as bad as the national news media and sky-is-falling critics have been predicting for about two months now. But then, the national news media is mostly based in New York and loves to love its Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, about as much as it loves to hate on Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
First, let’s just come out and say it: DeSantis looks more right than those who criticized the Sunshine State’s coronavirus response. According to the latest Florida figures, fewer than 2,000 have died, and around 43,000 have been infected. That’s a fraction of the dire predictions made for Florida when spring breakers swarmed the beaches, and those numbers are dwarfed by similarly sized New York, which has seen 12 times more deaths and nearly eight times more infections. (Check out POLITICO’s coronavirus tracker for more.) More people reportedly died in New York nursing homes than in all of Florida.
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