In a press conference Thursday morning, Governor DeSantis admitted state officials found 1 million unused COVID-19 tests in a warehouse.
The admission came as DeSantis unveiled a plan to get 1 million COVID-19 tests to Florida’s seniors.
Guthrie, the head of Florida’s Department of Emergency Management said, “We had between 800k and a million Abbott test kits in our warehouse that did expire.”.
Today’s revelation follows allegations by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried that the governor was stockpiling tests which were soon expiring.
The governor said he’s asking the federal government to extend the expiration date on these newly-discovered tests.
“We actually wanted to send a bunch of those [tests] to long-term care facilities at the beginning when we got them,” DeSantis said.
“A million tests that should have gone out to nursing homes, state run facilities that have not been opened up. »
