I believe the end goal of the vaccine has always been to reduce hospitalization, death and symptoms, not necessarily testing positive for covid.
Here in the Rochester region, >70% in the hospital are unvaxed and >85% in ICU are unvaxed. Hospitalizations have been climbing steadily in my region. Not sure who's giving you your numbers for Onondaga, but they just reported 84% of the hospitalized are unvaxed. This phase of the pandemic for this region is one created by largely the unvaxed.
I think a bit of good news is that Omicron may present less severe symptoms. But bad news is that it's far more contagious and maybe more breakthroughs, so running wild could still put a high demand on hospitals--- that's really bad for anyone that may need to go to the hospital for any other health reason... accident, ski injury etc.
As for Florida there are several things to note. (I was just there for 5 days).
1. FL actually has a fairly high vax rate and very comparable to NY.
2. Much of Florida is tourism-- people come and go. Perhaps many that may contract covid there will become ill and test positive in their home state.
3. Florida has abundant sunshine and with that there is an abundance of vitamin D, which greatly helps our immune system. Whereas here in the NE we are sun deprived.
4. Comparatively much of Florida life and socialization is outdoors and open air, which prevents transmission vs NY now where most gathering is enclosed.
5. The pandemic has moved in waves so FL may just be in a trough.
6. FL just dropped the mask mandates in schools so we shall see what happens.
7. Florida overall is hardly a grand model. NY had more than half its deaths in the first 100 days whereas FL flew right past us after that. Populations are very comparable in both states so no need to look at deaths per 100K.
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