Florida puts a positive spin on COVID-19 data, misleading the public on pandemic

Alexis Madrigal, deputy editor at The Atlantic, and a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, notes that wider use of antigen testing, which is becoming more available, will further disrupt the reliability of the measure. Recently, Florida has said it is deploying millions of rapid tests as it opens schools, and antigen tests have been widely used by professional and college sports teams.