The average number of daily COVID cases reported in California is roughly five times higher than Florida and twice as high as Texas, but experts told Newsweek it's tough to accurately compare states.
California also has a higher proportion of its population vaccinated compared to either Texas or Florida , according toIf this seems hard to explain, it's because it is, according to Jennifer Dowd, associate professor of demography and population health at the University of Oxford Department of Sociology.
There are so many factors at play, including a decline in vaccine protection over time. If many people were vaccinated early on in California compared to others, this might mean greater declines in immunity. "So there is a lot more recently-acquired immunity associated with infections in the populations in Florida and Texas than in California. That could be providing at least a temporary buffer against a late fall wave in those locations."
Indeed, natural immunity is something put forward by Kao. He pointed out that Florida, with its total of around 3.6 million COVID cases and a population of 21 million, has a higher amount of cases per population than California, with 5 million total cases amongst a population of 40 million.
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