As much of Florida starts reopening on a limited basis, about 200,000 antibody tests have arrived to determine who had the new coronavirus but wasn’t counted in the state’s tally of cases, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday.
Antibody testing is different than the nasal swabs Florida has been doing at drive-thru and walk-up locations throughout the state and will help find mild or asymptomatic cases that were missed, DeSantis said Sunday in Daytona Beach.
“What they are finding throughout the country ... is the number of people with the antibodies far exceeds the number of people who have actually tested positive in a diagnostic test," DeSantis said.