The northeast has had a couple weeks lead on the south for a while now. Speaking as someone that's been religiously watching the numbers here in Florida. With so many competing variants out there our immunity among wide swaths of the population is wildly out of sync and causing all sorts of lags and unexpected spikes. I feel ya on being in the dark. Florida has 67 counties; we were monitoring 9, got a tenth, and we're now down to getting data from only 4.

And the super fun part is, if you look at the missing data for some of our counties it seems like they saw a spike and decided to stop sending samples in response.