Florida’s fourth COVID surge came fast and strong. Here’s what the omicron wave tells us about what’s ahead.

In Florida, omicron peaked at the highest level of new cases of any wave, more than 60,000 in one day, or three times the summit of the delta surge. Deaths are always the last number to move, in any wave, and omicron deaths in Florida are accumulating now, although well below delta’s total of nearly 22,000.