I don’t have any inside baseball here, so I’m just spitballing:  perhaps the scare tactics are driving huge waves of asymptotic people to testing centers?  Perhaps it’s to reserve the best service for those who are actually sick?
The bigger question is why are we still talking about case counts?  I thought we expected viruses to get more transmissible and less lethal.  UF recently released a projection that 80% of Floridians will have had COVID by the time the omicron wave is finished.
Here’s the reported case counts for Florida…scary!!
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Here’s the reported death counts.
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The data doesn’t line up with the hysterics.