Let's look at it another way just for fun. 40,689 Floridians over age 65 have died of COVID [1]. If Florida had the same % of over 65 residents as California does (14.3%) [2], we would expect to see 28,245 >age 65 deaths in Florida. This would give Florida an overall COVID death rate of 201 deaths per 100,000 people. This is still higher than the actual overall death rate in California (179 deaths per 100,00 people)[3].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se... [2] https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest... [3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...