Florida is cooking the books too. When we get excess mortality and accurate look back you'll see more people died then should have.
I pretty much assume this is the case. Which is scary. Deathsantis's stupidity has already killed off nearly 1/400 Floridians according to those estimates. So the real number is probably 1/200. In other words, by the time this is over, 1% of FL's population will die of covid probably.
I don't think the disparity is that high but it's obvious he wanted to control the reporting narrative for political reasons and you don't do that unless the numbers are bad.