COVID Testing Aid Going to Senior Communities

The State of Florida has received its first shipment of 400,000 rapid antigen test kits from the federal government, and Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that 100,000 will go to assisted living communities to test staff and visitors for COVID-19, reports CBS Miami . He has ordered the shipment of 180,000 more Abbott BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card test kits to senior and retirement communities, including The Villages, Sun City Center in Tampa, the four Center Village communities in South Florida, and On Top of the World Communities in Ocala. The remaining 120,000 will be split between public schools and state-supported testing sites. None will go to nursing communities as they are already receiving kits from the federal government. The rapid antigen tests are recommended solely for testing symptomatic people and are less reliable than RT-PCR tests.