This article is a lie from a leftest rag. You can see the real numbers here:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
Right from beginning, covid numbers have been unreliable. Such as when a person died and if tested positive for covid, the death usually got added to death from covid instead of death with covid..
Somewhat same obfuscation for number of deaths from the covid vaccines. If a person died after shots of vaccine, they add to to death from vaccine instead of death with vaccine.
Now, coming to this time period of August 2021, because my wife gets regular cancer treatments at the local hospital, we know quite a few of the staff including nurses. And this is not conjecture, that the hospital is experiencing unusual high rate of admission from covid infected patients last few weeks.
https://www.flaglerhealth.org/covid-19-information/
That says over 44,000 dead. Not that it will stop me from moving there or voting for DeSantis next year.