The tests that expired were not home tests they were for testing sites. Back before Thanksgiving, we had the lowest positivity rate in the country under 5%. Nobody was going to be tested, they were just sitting going bad because nobody was using them. We closed a lot of drive-up testing sites because maybe 10 cars a day went through the line? they went bad before we got our second spike.
Then Thanksgiving and the holidays and everyone down here again throwing caution to the wind, we spiked back up there and need them. They require a covid test to get on a plane, a train, to go back to work, so that's what happened.
Could we have sent them to other states easily? IDK, it's a shame they went bad, but there wasn't a need for them at all then.
We since opened up more drive-up sites, but we have already reached our peak and are on the downslide again. They predict by the time this last peak falls 80% of all Floridians will have had Covid at some point. Is that herd immunity then? IDK
Here people are finding out they have Covid because they go into hospitals for other reasons and then find out. So that means our symptoms must be really mild, and the numbers for hospitalized Covid patients is not because of the Covid first, but a secondary issue that brought them in, like a heart attack, appendicitis, and such like that.
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