https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/05/watch-how-floridas-shocking-rise-in-covid-cases-compares-to-california/

It is a race no state wants to win. And it happened shockingly fast.

In the month after states across the country relaxed and retired most COVID restrictions, case rates for new infections — mostly from the highly contagious delta variant — have exploded. And nowhere is the trajectory as alarming as Florida.