DeSantis: We’ve Deployed the First Rapid COVID-19 Test to South Florida

‘This is a 45-minute rapid test’

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DESANTIS: “We’ve also deployed the first rapid COVID-19 test to south Florida. This is a 45-minute rapid test. We’ve sent 1,750 to Memorial Healthcare System in Broward, we've also sent 500 to northern Florida and we hope to have very soon an agreement to bring in the five-minute test developed by Abbott Laboratories. We’ve asked for a lot of those tests. And as soon as we get them, we will deploy those strategically in the fight against COVID-19. If you look at Florida’s numbers, we've seen a huge increase in testing over the last three weeks. We’re going to continue doing that. We think it’s very, very important. We’ve worked on this Hard Rock site here in Miami-Dade. We did a site, the National Guard in conjunction with Memorial Healthcare in Broward. We’re going to now tomorrow open up a site with the National Guard in Palm Beach County. Palm Beach County is a distant third in infections behind Miami and Broward but they've not had the same level of testing.”

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