It appears that my fears, sadly, might be coming true? Compare Deaths Per 1,000 Per Week’s Top 25 from 8/27/21 and 9/24/21 – See the Difference in Deaths Per 1,000?

States ranked by COVID-19 death rates

		17-Sep-21				24-Sep-21
		Deaths per 1,000				Deaths per 1,000
1	Florida R	1.69		1	Alabama	2.74
2	Mississippi R	1.42		2	Florida	1.53
3	South Carolina R	1.34		3	West Virginia	1.43
4	Idaho R	1.22		4	South Carolina	1.18
5	Louisiana D	1.15		5	Oklahoma	1.16
6	Georgia R	1.12		6	Georgia	1.13
7	Arkansas R	1.07		7	Mississippi	1.10
8	Texas R	1.03		8	Louisiana	1.03
9	West Virginia R	0.99		9	Texas	1.00
10	Wyoming R	0.96		10	Idaho	0.96
11	Alabama R	0.89		11	Tennessee	0.94
12	Tennessee R	0.85		12	Wyoming	0.91
13	Oklahoma R	0.84		13	Montana	0.87
14	Kentucky D	0.76		14	Kentucky	0.85
15	North Carolina D	0.71		15	Nevada	0.75
16	Nevada D	0.65		16	Arizona	0.72
17	Indiana R	0.61		17	Arkansas	0.72
18	Kansas D	0.52		18	North Carolina	0.67
19	New Mexico D	0.52		19	Indiana	0.63
20	Washington D	0.52		20	Missouri	0.63
21	Oregon D	0.49		21	Hawaii	0.60
22	Montana R	0.47		22	Kansas	0.59
23	Hawaii D	0.46		23	Washington	0.54
24	Missouri R	0.46		24	New Mexico	0.50
25	Arizona R	0.43		25	Delaware	0.43

Alabama?

Week 1 of College Football (Roll Tide!)

This is what I am worried about:

Florida grapples with COVID-19′s deadliest phase yet

“As of mid-August, the state was averaging 244 deaths per day, up from just 23 a day in late June and eclipsing the previous peak of 227 during the summer of 2020. (Because of both the way deaths are logged in Florida and lags in reporting, more recent figures on fatalities per day are incomplete.)

Hospitals have had to rent refrigerated trucks to store more bodies. Funeral homes have been overwhelmed.

Cristina Miles, a mother of five from Orange Park, is among those facing more than one loss at a time. Her husband died after contracting COVID-19, and less than two weeks later, her mother-in-law succumbed to the virus.”

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6 charts show the virus’ shift from blue to red states

I live in the SEC of COVID-19

I found a pattern: