{"id":51893,"date":"2022-01-06T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51893"},"modified":"2022-01-06T23:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:00:48","slug":"1-million-covid-tests-expired-last-month-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/01\/1-million-covid-tests-expired-last-month-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Million COVID Tests Expired Last Month in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, the director of the state\u2019s Division of Emergency Management, confirmed accusations from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is also running for governor this year, that the state let a stockpile of at-home tests expire in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/binax-now.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 800,000 and 1 million Abbott rapid testing kits expired in a warehouse last month, Guthrie said at a news conference Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guthrie added, \u201cWe received a three-month extension on those test kits, which ended up expiring between Dec. 26 and Dec. 30. Prior to that date, we did ask Abbott and the federal government for another three-month extension on those, so we could use those tests. We\u2019re still waiting to hear about that from HHS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, the director of the state\u2019s Division of Emergency Management, confirmed accusations from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is also running for governor this&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51896,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51893\/revisions\/51896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}