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Mykonos per the Greek government statistics is 1391 per 100k 7-day MA which seems pretty darn high to me. Now there very easily could be a denominator problem in so far as perhaps they are using the year round population vs what is presumably now a far high population at this point. A number of other islands also have pretty high rates. Naxos is 700-ish per 100k and has been doubling each week for the last three I have been watching.
There is another problem with high figures on small islands - you are multiplying Mykonos case numbers by 10 rather than dividing them by 215 (in the case of Florida). So one extended family shoots up the infection rate. Greece is around 300 per 100k overall, and USA is at least 400, with a ludicrous positivity rate that it is actually impossible to say how bad the USA is at the moment. But at the very minimum Florida will be above 1500 per 7 day per 100k at the moment, heading skywards. and that's for a big state compared to one small island. So without any question Florida is much worse than the very worse island in Greece.
[It's only the USA that uses one day figures, 7 day or even 14 day figures per 100k are the usual international standard for very good reasons].