Hundreds of Orlando International Airport employees test positive for COVID-19

[soothsayer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/hundreds-of-orlando-international-airport-employees-test-positive-for-covid-19/

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that an alarming number of employees at the Orlando International Airport tested positive for COVID-19 after nearly 500 of them were tested for the disease.

Orlando’s News 6 WKMG reports that 260 Orlando airport workers came back with positive novel coronavirus test results, which is a positive rate of around 52 percent.

[Maru Kitteh]

1. OH MY GOD

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Yikes

:-/

[global1]

3. WoW!!!! - Makes Me Really Want To Go To The Disney Properties.....nt

[lpbk2713]

4. Disneyworld is set to reopen July 11.

This won't work out too well.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

5. My adult children live in Florida

I live in England. I’m 65. It occurs to me I might not ever see them again.

[stopdiggin]

6. there's better reporting on this

the 52% is erroneous .. based on misunderstanding of the testing and story.
(the numbers, when you get the facts straightened out, are still very shocking .. but 52 is not accurate.)

[soothsayer]

11. Thank you

[spinbaby]

7. Friend in Florida tells me this article is deceptive

According to her, only 2 out of the 500 tested at once were positive. The 260 number is apparently all cases associated with the airport since March, including contacts.

[soothsayer]

10. Phew! That's good news

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Complete screw-up by DeSantis

Link to tweet

2 out of 500 airport employees; 132 from airlines, rental companies, TSA and Aviation Administration - out of 22,000 in those categories. 128 connected to those 132 (eg family).

[MoonlitKnight]

9. Lie is the correct term

DeSantis gave a bunch of lies to cover for the explosion of new cases in the state to defend his reckless decisions.