As deaths mount, could Florida become the Italy of the US?

Like Florida, Italy imposed restrictions gradually, fearful of causing lasting economic damage. The government isolated towns in the north, the hardest-hit region, but allowed restaurants and tourists attractions to remain open. Eventually, as the infection numbers scaled to catastrophic heights, the government imposed a general lockdown and deployed the army to enforce it, as respirators and hospital beds ran low and health care workers themselves contracted the disease. The death rate for Italy is extraordinarily high, topping 8 percent.