COVID-19 cases are starting to accumulate across Florida and the application for evidence is on the rise, and some sites face a two-hour backup and others face a morning accident from other people queuing to be sealed before paintings or school.
To keep up with demand, some sites finish their doors two hours in advance so everyone can line up before the final time. Others are opening more lanes for self-service and some personal sites are extending their schedules.
“It all depends on what happens to the numbers,” said Mike Jachles, who oversees state tests at Hard Rock Stadium on the Miami-Dade/Broward line. “Not only do other people come if they are afraid to test positive, but there are also others for repeated testing. People come back to be calm. “
After a break in September, the state began seeing a build-up on new instances of COVID-19 in October. Over the next two weeks, Florida has reported nine consecutive days with more than 4,000 new cases, and the state reported 6,257 new infections. Thursday.
Hard Rock’s verification site, one of the busiest in the state, verified another 2,859 people on Wednesday, higher than its record of 2,811 checks conducted on October 3, a month earlier. a normal PCR diagnostic check, or both.
Over the past few days, Hard Rock has been closing the doors two hours early to allow everyone to arrive at the last hour at five o’clock in the afternoon. Quick tests provide effects in an hour. PCR testing takes approximately two days to produce effects, but they are the ultimate accuracy. .
“We are open seven days a week. The numbers they’re doing there are remarkable,” Jachles said.
At Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, where the Florida Department of Health in Broward County began immediate COVID-19 (antigen) testing at the wheel, the car line stretched for a kilometer long on the federal highway for much of Thursday. FITTEAM Ballpark of Beaches, the state identified the call and added a line to its driving service for more people to travel faster, according to John Jameson, Palm Beach County Public Data Officer.
Blake Dale, 26, said he waited three hours at Hard Rock Stadium twice in the last 12 days and 3 hours twice at Marlins Park to get tested. He opted for immediate antigenic testing. The first time, feeling sore and congested, he tested positive; since then, it has been looking to get a negative result. On Tuesday, however, you were given a negative result with a quick test, but you need to verify the result with the most accurate popular PCR test. He plans to stop at Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale on Friday.
“The sites are a bit chaotic, but I waited in lines because I need my roommates and parents to feel more secure than me and everyone to feel more comfortable around me,” Dale said.
On Thursday, the Florida Department of Health reported control effects for another 108,000 people on the sixth day with more than 100,000 effects in the following two weeks. The average seven-day number of others in Florida verified the virus, about 78,000, higher. October and continued until November. It had fallen to 50,000 a day in August.
First tests
Although other people flock to parks, stadiums and network centers for loose cleaning, only 4 out of ten people in Florida are being evaluated for the first time. The number of new applicants has increased in recent weeks.
“We’re six months away, so he expects the percentage of new check applicants to fall,” Jason L said. Salemi, epidemiologist and knowledge expert at the University of South Florida. “Florida likes to say that we check a lot, but it’s also vital to check on new people. You have to achieve any of the goals. “
Salemi said first-time applicants were more likely to test positive. “What motivates them is not new, however, it is more likely that someone close to them has contracted the virus or is beginning to experience symptoms. “The positivity rate of new applicants on Thursday 14% compared to 7. 75% for all applicants.
In Palm Beach County, which reported another 458 cases of new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the Palm Beach County Health District is providing COVID-19 at seven sites.
“Patients are queuing up for our non-appointment sites to open early in the morning,” spokesman Robin Kish said. All seven sites are experiencing an increase in demand, he said. The volume of tests almost doubled last month of 383 COVID-19 . From October 13 to 7 thirteen COVID-19 tests on November 3.
Know which lab where
As the volume of tests increases across the state, it may be vital to know which lab supplies the effects for a site. Curative Labs, which manages the effects of 10 state-run sites, adding Hard Rock Stadium, provides effects to patients by SMS or email. The effects of immediate tests (antigens) are sent within the hour. The effects of PCR testing have an average of 30. 38 hours to receive.
But some labs have problems.
Carol and Gerald Israel, who were washed at the South Palm Civic Center on October 20, have not yet obtained the effects of their PCR tests, which would be provided through CDR Maguire, a company that works with the Florida Department of Health. The phone number provided to the couple demands patience: “Due to the accumulation throughout the state, we have an incredibly high volume of calls,” says one recording.
The snowbirds, 70, said they were at home in Florida, had no symptoms, and had no plans to return for any other tests. “We did it to be sure, but now with the lines, we probably wouldn’t come back. Carol Israel said.
Although free government-run checkpoints close at five o’clock in the afternoon, many emergency care centers remain open until nine o’clock at night and take effect in 10 to 24 hours. Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale and Coral Springs recorded a 1. 5% increase in the number of other people who attended COVID-1nine controls, mainly in busy night hours.
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