ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – As Florida entered its third day under the governor’s phase one reopening plan, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that antibody testing would be coming to Orange County at the Orange County Convention Center’s drive-thru COVID-19 testing site.

DeSantis said the antibody testing lane would be added to the site’s current testing capacity, but there was no indication of when this additional capability would be up and running for residents to drive through. “The FDA approved [antibody] test that Florida has acquired - we have 200,000 and we have more on the way - what it will do is it will tell people whether they’ve developed the antibodies within a 15-minute timeframe,” DeSantis said. “You saw [lab technicians] doing

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