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New York Times “Covid News” update by Isabella Grullón Paz posted Friday reported that Florida will become the first state to no longer update its COVID-19 dashboard and cease its daily reporting on cases, deaths and vaccinations. With cases decreasing in the state, it will post weekly updates instead.
But then Paz went into a bizarre sidelight on discredited Florida Covid whistleblower Rebekah Jones, a heroine to the left for her allegations of COVID coverup by Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Jones was recently thrust back in the news by a Florida health department’s Inspector General letter indicating that she met the criteria for whistleblower protections.
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Florida virus-numbers saga reads like a crime novel
By Patricia Mazzei New York Times December 12, 2020 5:22pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Miami – The complicated story of how a Florida data scientist responsible for managing the state s coronavirus numbers wound up with state police agents brandishing guns in her house this week began seven long months ago, when the scientist, Rebekah D. Jones, was removed from her post at the Florida Department of Health.
Jones had helped build the statistics dashboard showing how the virus was rapidly spreading in a state that had been hesitant to mandate broad restrictions.
Two months in, Jones was sidelined and then fired for insubordination, a conflict that she said came to a head when she refused to manipulate data to show that rural counties were ready to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns. The specter of possible censorship by the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Repub