260 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Orlando International Airport

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: WKMG Orlando

Gov. Ron DeSantis said 260 workers at the Orlando International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after nearly 500 employees were tested.

“[An]Airport in Central Florida had a couple of cases, they did the contract tracing. They looked [at] almost 500 workers [and] 260 people working close together were positive, 52 percent positivity rate on that one,” DeSantis said.

More than 2,780 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Florida on Tuesday.

The state reports more than 80,100 people have tested positive from COVID-19 and 2,993 people have died from coronavirus.

The Florida Department of Health reports 5.5 percent of people taking a COVID-19 test have tested positive for the virus.

Read more: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/06/16/gov-desantis-shares-latest-update-on-covid-19-after-florida-reports-2783-new-cases/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wkmg6

[MLAA]

1. Who is ready to go to Disney World?

[tom_kelly]

2. "had a couple of cases". This guy is is killing people n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And they wonder why people aren't flying? nt

[sarcasmo]

4. Stay away from airports and large crowds until we have a vaccine.

[iluvtennis]

5. Airport workers - wow. And how many people have they potentially infected -we'll never know because

our nation hasn't implemented contact tracing.

[BadGimp]

6. wow

And this with a 50% - 90% drop in Flights.

Imagine what the real risk of air travel is for Flyers!

[hibbing]

7. Ugh, I have relatives flying in today from Orlando

Normally there would not be any traveling, but sometimes life's circumstances make it necessary. I'm going to do my best to social distance and to wear masks. Luckily they are not staying with me. May do a backyard dinner with distancing.


Airports have got to be one of the worst places.

Peace

[rocktivity]

8. If only you'd done that first

and if there was testing for the passengers, too.


rocktivity

[stopdiggin]

9. Gov Desantis has a bit of Trump syndrome

Keeping things straight was never his strongest subject in school. People routinely come along after him to clean up the mess (story) .. and that's what happened here.

It's still a fairly eye opening story .. and Florida appears to be almost in a freefall. Good luck.

[caraher]

10. The article is rather confusing

They seem to have walked back the claim that it was workers, and they were not randomly testing but contact tracing

However, it turns out those positive cases were not all airport employees and the cases were from a period of several months, according to the Orlando International Airport.

Orlando airport executives clarified the numbers Wednesday, clarifying not all 260 people are workers nor were they part of the group of 500 workers tested as referenced by the governor.

[tekriter]

11. DeSantis got it all wrong

The 260 number isn’t from the 500 tested. The 500 tested came up with TWO positive results.

The 260 is the total number of cases in the 25,000 or so badged employees with access to the airport, plus all the contact tracing done so far. The badged employees would include all actual airport persons, plus custodial, plus car rental, plus food service.