{"id":1194288,"date":"2022-01-06T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194288"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:50:59","slug":"ron-desantis-florida-to-distribute-1-million-at-home-covid-19-tests-for-vulnerable-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-florida-to-distribute-1-million-at-home-covid-19-tests-for-vulnerable-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis: Florida To Distribute 1 Million At-Home COVID-19 Tests For Vulnerable People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fron-desantis-florida-to-distribute-1-million-at-home-covid-19-tests-for-vulnerable-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis told Fox News on Thursday that his administration will be distributing 1 million at-home COVID-19 tests to the most vulnerable residents in his state as the Biden administration struggles to follow through on its commitment to send at-home tests to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, the Biden administration promised they were going to send all these at-home tests. They said all you had to do was go online and get it. And nothing has happened in a month and a half with doing that,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd so, we looked at it in Florida and say, you know, the point of matter is not every single person needs to be going out always getting tested. You have healthy people. That\u2019s not a good strategy. But what is a good strategy is to have these at-home tests available for our vulnerable population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so, we\u2019ve secured a million at-home tests and we\u2019re going to be distributing them to nursing homes and long-term care facilities throughout the state of Florida, and then to the broader senior communities throughout our population. Because we view testing as something that should lead to, then, a clinical result,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cAnd so, we\u2019ve embraced early treatments in Florida. So if you have somebody that\u2019s elderly that may be vulnerable to COVID they can get a quick test in-home and don\u2019t got to wait in line. And then if they\u2019re positive they have the ability, potentially, to get treatments. Now, we would like to have more treatments, but the federal government is being very scarce with those, and so we\u2019re fighting for more so that Floridians get what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX &amp; FRIENDS CO-HOST: Let\u2019s bring in Florida governor, Ron DeSantis. He knows all about the challenges of getting therapeutics for his state, as well as testing. Governor, always great to see you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the \u2014 even your critics would say you are a man of action. We\u2019re in a nationwide shortage when it comes to tests. Do you have something to say to the people of Florida?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GOV. RON DESANTIS (R), FLORIDA: Yes, Brian. You know, the Biden administration promised they were going to send all these at-home tests. They said all you had to do was go online and get it. And nothing has happened in a month and a half with doing that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, we looked at it in Florida and say, you know, the point of matter is not every single person needs to be going out always getting tested. You have healthy people. That\u2019s not a good strategy. But what is a good strategy is to have these at-home tests available for our vulnerable population.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, we\u2019ve secured a million at-home tests and we\u2019re going to be distributing them to nursing homes and long-term care facilities throughout the state of Florida, and then to the broader senior communities throughout our population. Because we view testing as something that should lead to, then, a clinical result.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so, we\u2019ve embraced early treatments in Florida. So if you have somebody that\u2019s elderly that may be vulnerable to COVID they can get a quick test in-home and don\u2019t got to wait in line. And then if they\u2019re positive they have the ability, potentially, to get treatments. Now, we would like to have more treatments but the federal government is being very scarce with those and so we\u2019re fighting for more so that Floridians get what they need.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEVE DOOCY, FOX &amp; FRIENDS CO-HOST: Sure, absolutely. And so, it\u2019s amazing that you\u2019re able to announce details before the federal government is because you would think the federal government \u2014 you know, they\u2019re the whole enchilada. They should be able to do things, whereas you have taken, obviously, matters into your own hands to try to get it to the people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, you know, I like the \u2014 what you have just said regarding the fact that you are \u2014 not everybody needs to be tested, but the vulnerable do. Because ultimately, what we\u2019re seeing with the Omicron is \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, my whole family had it around Christmastime and we didn\u2019t know we had it. And it wasn\u2019t until one of us got \u2014 I got the first test. Where it\u2019s like OK, you need to keep away from your family. It was too late. I\u2019d already infected everybody. But you\u2019ve got to stay away from grandma.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that\u2019s what you\u2019re talking about with the most vulnerable because people do need to be vaccinated, boosted, and tested to keep everybody safe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DESANTIS: Well, and that\u2019s the thing. I think you have a situation where Omicron, thankfully, is much less pathogenic than Delta. You see it dramatically \u2014 fewer hospital admissions. And a lot of the hospital admissions in Florida and around the country are people who are getting admitted for something else<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis told Fox News on Thursday that his administration will be distributing 1 million at-home COVID-19 tests to the most vulnerable residents in his state as the Biden administration struggles to follow through on its commitment to send at-home tests to Americans. \u201cYou know, the Biden administration promised they were going &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}