Gov. Ron DeSantis shames media, outbreak models’ doomsday predictions: Off by nearly 500k in Florida

The Florida governor cited a demographer at the University of California, Irvine, Andrew Noymer, who received widespread media attention when he warned that “Florida is like an uber-Italy.” “Not just like Italy. Way worse than Italy is what they were trying to say,” DeSantis said of the doomsday predictions.