Orlando airport ‘clarifies’ Gov. DeSantis claim that 260 of 500 employees had COVID-19
Orlando International Airport on Wednesday fact-checked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ statement that 260 of 500 airport workers tested came back positive for COVID-19.
In pointing to individual workplace hotspots for the novel coronavirus, DeSantis said on Tuesday: “An airport in Central Florida had a couple of cases. They did the contact tracing. They looked over almost 500 workers, 260 working close together positive, 52 percent positivity rate on that one...”
Wednesday, at 11:15 a.m., Orlando International Airport released a “clarification” via Twitter.
▪ The 500 tests were done over three days last week. There were two positives.
▪ The 260 cases are the total at the airport from mid-March through June.
▪ That 260 breaks down as 132 employees and 128 people who aren’t among the airport’s 25,000 employees, but “have traceable connections to our employees.”
