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I decided to look at the state health department's site to see what Covid data they are still making available. What I found is quite interesting, even stunning. It's the disparity in positivity rates between counties. Florida is a massive state, so it makes sense that some areas would be worse off than others, but this is pretty wild (to me, a not doctor or data scientist person or even an expert in Florida geography). There are a number of counties with positivity rates below 5%. Glades County has a positivity rate of just 2.6%. Impressive because Franklin County is reporting a positivity rate of 20.8%! Plenty of counties in the teens. My county is at 6.5% now, which isn't great, but it sure is better than others. Scroll about midway down to see the table with the individual county data. http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf