ORLANDO, Fla. – The White House is now looking to increase testing nationwide as the Trump administration wants each state to test at least 2% of its population each month.
News 6 looked at Florida testing over a 10-day period from April 18 to April 27. On average statewide, the total tests were 12,144 per day.
If the state were to do that every day, it would be 364,320 tests per month. Keep in mind that number is quite inflated because we know potentially thousands of people have been tested multiple times and those retests are included in the total testing number.
There are nearly 22 million people in the state. To test 2% of the population per month, you would need to hit roughly 440,000 tests per month.