A misleading COVID-19 map from the CDC left out data for Florida. Just like that, it changed overnight.

“The delta wave is like the wind. It came from the south, hit Florida, and now it’s hitting other states to the north and eventually their case levels will come down, too,” said Dr. Ali Mokdad with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, who works on global COVID-19 data predictions. “What we are looking at in Florida is not a success story. It’s a failure. We saw a lot of mortality. The fact that it hit Florida earlier and is now coming down is because it ran out of people to infect.”