Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touted his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic by pointing out that the curve appears to be flattening without “draconian orders” like other states have implemented.

“Right now, as of last night, we had about 730 people statewide in the ICU,” DeSantis told Fox News Tuesday. “People said our hospitals were going to be overrun. We’ve actually increased hospital bed space and ICU bed space during the pandemic. So there were fewer beds available in Florida in February than there are now. So Florida’s flattened the curve. People have done a great job.”

DeSantis mentioned that other states, including New York, imposed far stricter measures and didn’t have the same results.

“You go back six weeks, everybody ... was saying Florida was going to be worse than New York,” DeSantis said. “Obviously, we have a very elderly population. It was constant, people saying that. If you look at what’s happened, that’s not true. You know, New York, for example, has about 25 times the number of fatalities of Florida, even though we have 2 million more people.”

“I never did draconian orders here like you see in some of these other states where a dad would get arrested for, or get cited for, taking his daughter to the park. That doesn’t work. We’ve never done that.”

Just over 27,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Florida, and 839 people have died. This death toll is below other highly populated states such as New York, where almost 20,000 people have died from the virus, and California, which has lost over 1,200.

Beaches in the Sunshine State are starting to reopen as the state begins taking steps to get residents back to work in a sensible fashion.

DeSantis said days ago that he will use President Trump’s plan to reopen the economy as a “baseline.”