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County health director briefs commissioners on rising positivity, testing plans and school metrics
Summary
Alachua County Health Director Paul Myers updated the commission on case counts, testing volumes, contact tracing performance and school-targeted testing, proposing biweekly reporting and a local 24-hour-turnaround testing capacity to support school decisions.
Paul Myers, director of the Alachua County Health Department, told the Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 11 that the county has tested tens of thousands of residents and continues to add testing and contact-tracing capacity amid a rise in cases. He reported cumulative testing of roughly 72,000 people and noted recent two-week positivity in single digits with daily volatility.
Myers described testing turnaround times via LabCorp and Jacksonville labs (24'36 hours for county-ordered tests), and proposed a local rapid-testing…
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