ORLANDO, Fla. – In the fight against coronavirus, the state of Florida releases daily reports and has created an online dashboard that is updated twice a day.
News 6 decided to take a closer look at the state’s testing numbers for coronavirus --something Gov. Ron DeSantis talks about at every briefing. “You hear Florida did this, that, well what does that mean?
What’s the basis of comparison?” DeSantis said at a press conference this week. According to the Florida Department of Health, Florida has administered more than 318, 827 tests for COVID-19.
With nearly 22 million people in the state, it would appear the state has tested well over 1% of the population. But because the state does not break out the number of re-tests in the testing