Concerns Erupt Over Integrity of Florida's COVID-19 Website
In preparation for reopening the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis has lashed out against early prognostications of gloom and doom, saying in recent weeks that many of the state's hospital beds are lying empty.
May 20, 2020 at 02:21 PM
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The chief architect of Florida's coronavirus website was fired this week after a dispute over what information should be made public, underscoring how entwined public health data and politics have become as elected officials move to reopen their communities amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said his decision to begin reopening his state has been driven by science, and federal epidemiologists have praised his administration's daily release of COVID-19-related data as especially granular and user-friendly.
But questions about the integrity of the state's public health data were raised anew when Rebekah Jones, an information systems manager with the Florida Department of Health, announced in an email to researchers Friday that she was reassigned from her duties overseeing an online dashboard that provides daily snapshots of Florida's COVID-19 infections, testing and deaths.
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