TAMPA, Fla. — COVID-19 seems to be the part of the holidays we are all trying to avoid. Christmas day was a record-breaking day for daily COVID-19 cases reported in the state of Florida rounding up to nearly 33,000 total.
As the Christmas festivities come to a close, now many are worried about COVID exposure.
In Hillsborough County, the department of health runs just one COVID-19 testing facility. The West Tampa Neighborhood Service Center had a line wrapped around the building for much of Sunday.
According to the CDC, in the southeast region of the U.S., the omicron variant accounts for 95 percent of COVID-19 cases. At the start of December, omicron accounted for just one percent.
For Florida specifically, the most recent data from the CDC shows 98.53% of cases can be attributed to the omicron variant.
For a list of county testing sites, click the links below: