Florida Boosts COVID-19 Testing, Sending New-Case Rate To A Record Low

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says only around 2.5% of nearly 24,000 COVID-19 tests confirmed an infection on Monday — a record low for the state. The state is in the first phase of its reopening.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says only about 2.6% of nearly 24,000 COVID-19 tests confirmed an infection on Monday, in a new low.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says only about 2.6% of nearly 24,000 COVID-19 tests confirmed an infection on Monday, in a new low.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says his state has hit a new record low in the rate of positive test results for COVID-19, as only around 2.5% of nearly 24,000 tests confirmed an infection on Monday.

The positive news about test results came after Florida reported two notable rises in the day-to-day number of new cases. On Friday, the state's"weeklong trend of daily totals under 1,000 was broken," as. That daily figure fell over the weekend, but on Monday, the state confirmed 819 new coronavirus cases.

Florida will also add antibody tests to the state's drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites this week, the governor said. And he said the state should consider retaining a special law that has allowed restaurants to include alcohol in their delivery and takeout orders.

 

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Don’t believe him he’s suppressing the numbers

Do we really trust Florida to give the true results? The Governor is such a “good friend” of Trump. I don’t trust any numbers coming from Florida at all. GOP goal is to have very low numbers to prove to world that it’s okay to open up the country, whether it’s true or not.

Nope.

or building the economy back up?😬😬

Sure, I believe him...🤮

Come. On. . Has the acronym changed to “Now Public Relations?”

That means nothing. Testing has to be done per population and it can't be selective, like all the rich people living in their mansions.

Let’s see the numbers next Wednesday

If you cut testing you lower the rate of reported infections and deaths

this is why I don't support NPR. the real story is that Fl is trying to get their %pos rate down by testing asymptomatic people and comparing it to when they did not test asymptomatic people It is a sham designed to fool fools. Worked on NPR. No surprise there. getaclue

He’s a liar.

My daughter can’t get a test. Maybe if you allowed testing for those who are symptomatic...

So what happened with the 600 infected? This is the concern, problem, issue. If all were immediately quarantined, the contact tracing done and those ppls contacts traced, then fine. Out of the negatives how many were actually infected as the tests are not 100%? 2%, 2.5%, more?

2.5 percent is 600 people.

He’s been giving wrong info!!!!

BS

Lmao. Like FL has tests. . Lmao

Where in Florida are they testing?

Good Luck Floridains.. You will need it with that govern..

Companies have no liability for killing me or you.. I am not going no where!!

Boost = stopping

He isn’t testing...that’s why the numbers are so fake!

Wait . . . is he talking? He's lying.

Governor Ron DeSantis is a liar

When one lies so often, reasonable people simply stop believing them. Ron is a maga liar.

Florida is under reporting. Don't trust anything they say.

I don’t believe it. He’s a maga 🤥

ALL HAIL THE GOLDEN CALF (of deceit) DOWNWARD DOGMA

lol, everyone in this thread is still salty DeSantis beat their wonderboy.....

Does he know how to calculate this. That is 600 infections in 1 day. THAT IS VERY ALARMING!

Why is Texas starting phase 2 when numbers are going up

DeSantis says

Same guy who is blocking public Health officials from releasing the numbers of people infected come on!!!

Covid 19 death per million residents by states: New York 1285 New Jersey 934 Connecticut 735 Massachusetts 617 Louisiana 454 Michigan 420 Illinois 221 Georgia 126 Ohio 98 Florida 71 California 61 Texas 34

When the president likes a governor the state gets tests?

Keep testing till you've gotten everyone in the morgue

Sure...

Anyone believe this? 🙄

Who's leg is he pulling?

Good for them. Best of luck!

He has moved ahead and leading the nation. Oklahoma, has also open doors and all ok!

Go GovRonDeSantis !!!!

Number 3 failure in the USA.. FLORIDA should investigate his lying to Floridians..

Yet Miami Dade County, FL’s COVID19 hotspot, has only tested 2% of its population. Yesterday marked the highest number of *recorded* deaths. Meanwhile, GovRonDeSantis reopens. Go back to the beach & go back to work. If you get sick, you’re SOL. No job? SOL. Unemployment? Lol

Fix your headline. Record number of deaths today.

I don't trust Ron DeSantis!

There are a lot of cases that have never been tested. Also, we don't know numbers of infected in nursing homes, group homes? FL needs to do a better job of counting!

Need corroboration. This guy lies.

It all depends on where the tests are conducted

Also low because testing done on people who clearly didn’t need to be tested

Why am I suspicious of everything this person says?

It's nice to see everyone knows this is fake news !

disgracedesantis

He is a liar

Is anybody buying these numbers?

💩💩💩💩💩

24,000 tests in a state of more than 25 million. Is my math correct that is less than 0.01 percent. Sounds like mission accomplished, eh Jared?

There's no way anyone should believe a word that comes out of lying mouth GovRonDeSantis!

GovRonDeSantis Nobody believes the words that are coming out of your mouth!

Lies,Lies and lies. Gov.Desantis has the largest Florida senior population. He's playing with their lives. 24,000 covid-19 test, with a 25 million population. Are you serious, 24000 covid-19 test is about testing 1 million Floridians per day.

So maybe only 5 or 600,000 in fla. may have the virus. Let's have a covid party. Desantis you bring the ventilators and dip.

lol 24000 test for a state of 18 million people. I cringe for Florida when the next hurricane hits, with this mentally challenged chimp, at the helm.

It helps when you don’t update your Floridacoronavirus numbers for the day: this evening’s numbers are the same as this morning’s.

Desantis VS Florida Public Health graphs. You tell me who to believe!

Come on - DeSantis' reporting is so notably manipulated, the headline should have disclaimers.

Wait for it...

He's excluding out of state pepole who get it and die from stats, ordered his coroner's to stop releasing Covid death data to the public, but ok...

don't believe this shit from RonDeSantisFL He lies like Trump. TrumpGenocide

He is lying

Do you really believe anything this man says?

We’ll check back in, in a couple of weeks.

Yes, but if you go outside there will be MurderHornets

Florida is a wild timeline

2.5% is low?!?😲

So using his own numbers, 600 have tested positive on Monday alone. Okay.

Sure buddy...why don't you tell the truth and let Floridians know exactly are dying instead of your fake numbers!

He's lying. Next story.

'We will literally say anything the GOP wants!'

They tested 8 people

But how many total are positive? I mean if you tested everyone in the US at once I’m sure the rate would be low but the case total would explode.

reopening what he never closed...gtfo

Because he is trustworthy

The destruction of the Working Class in 2020 will go down as the worst Political Economic Decision in US History. Books will be written about the failure of the Media, Medical Experts, and Politicians to recognize what the true risk was, and who was truly at risk.

Mo sun shine less co vid nineteen.

If you believe him I have some really good real estate to sell you down here.

This means nothing lol.

We have no idea if this is true.

Well when you prohibit your medical examiners from reporting Covid deaths it's pretty easy to sharpie those numbers for the media to report. Way to go

He's not trustworthy.

Problem is, we can't trust this man because he has shown himself to be more concerned with pleasing Trump than keeping his people alive.

this from the state that won't allow coroners to report death statistics?

I couldn’t get a test in Iowa

Narrator: They don't count the dead

You can trust DeSantis like you can trust Trump & China. Same liars. Same pandemic.

Something smells fishy.

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