But testing numbers have risen somewhat in recent days, with pharmacies in high-spread states like Florida reporting a sharper increase.

“The past 10 days have been going off the hook,” says Barry Abraham, the president and COO of Empowered Diagnostics, a south Florida-based company that provides corporate COVID-19 testing. “The testing centers are going back to December numbers.”

What they’re saying: “The most important aspect of these tests is the rapid result,” Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the New York Times last month.

“Waiting two to three days for laboratory test results isn’t ideal when you need results quickly to make decisions about going to school, work or a social gathering,” he said.