Follow the money is right. Hospitals are corporations.
What is the one thing the southern states have had in common, that could have led to this increase in infection rates?
The answer—the widespread use of air conditioning.
Covid is spread when droplets carrying the infection are expelled into the air. Remember how choirs and such were prime transmitters of Covid? That’s because infected people singing, or talking loudly, expel droplets of infected water into the air where others breath it in.
Isn’t that exactly how air conditioning works?