So one week after DeSantis's personally appointed Inspector General issues a report stating that Rebekah Jones' claims are "unsubstantiated" in an unscrupulous political exercise -- the Florida State auditor comes out with a report effectively underlining everything she stated about the Covid data during the first months of the pandemic is completely correct. Let's see what Rebekah Jones has to say about this. Whistleblower reacts to state audit showing inaccurate Florida COVID-19 data https://www.wfla.com/community/heal...vid-19-data-was-inaccurate-state-audit-finds/ A new state audit report found gaps in COVID-19 data released by the state of Florida. The report was released by Florida’s Auditor General, and found that state officials sometimes delayed the release of important information, including the number of deaths. The report found certain COVID-19 data was inaccurate in 2020. State Auditors said data was critical to the state’s COVID-19 response and may have impacted how officials dealt with the disease. The Florida Auditor General’s Office found that the number of deaths reported by the state did not match the number of COVID-19 related deaths recorded by Florida’s office of vital statistics. As a result, thousands of deaths may not have been reported accurately in 2020. According to the report, state data was sometimes incomplete and failed to include information on demographics. In other cases, positive test results were not entered correctly. “We’re owed policy changes that prevent this kind of thing from happening again,” said Rebekah Jones, a former state data scientist. “The public is entitled to critical information during a crisis that has been my fight for the past two years. If the situation is worse than the state is telling us, then we have a right to know that.” Jones was the data scientist who helped create Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard. Jones claimed she was asked to manipulate COVID-19 data two years ago. She was later fired. It’s important to note the auditor general’s report was conducted separately from Jones’ allegations. “I hope that every person in the state government who is seeing this report and reading it feels empowered now to come forward,” said Jones. The report found the state Department of Health did not routinely check the data for any discrepancies. Additionally, auditors say the department’s records did not always contact trace. State health officials said often times they did not have enough staff to make that happen. In a response to the audit, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, agreed with the findings. He said the Florida Health Department has created an action plan in response to the report which will be completed by the end of the year.
Apparently the preventable deaths of over 1 million U.S. citizens due to a failed government response means little to you. The death rates are much greater in red states due to the political narrative pushed by politicians like DeSantis -- many times pushing complete misinformation -- which undermined public health.
Let's see how Covid is going in DeSantisLand. You know beyond the recent State Auditor's report showing more than 3000 additional deaths being unreported and deliberate failures in the reporting of Covid data early in the pandemic in Florida. We should definitely be concerned.’ Miami-Dade’s COVID-19 cases, positivity rates soar https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article262356487.html
LOL...she's a foreign agent now? Never mind that the WP (or you) don't know the difference between Georgia and Russia. You people are so desperate that I can smell it from here.
Let's see what the Florida papers have to say about DeSantis... DeSantis competes in the MAGA special Olympics https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...-desantis-attack-special-olympics/7566235001/ Until recently, it seemed that Gov. Ron DeSantis had positioned himself as the saner, safer alternative to Donald Trump as Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race. Now he sounds as off the rails as the 45th president at his worst. If that was his intent, he’s doing a great job. After the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team tweeted support for sane gun control following the murder of 19 children at Uvalde, Texas, donating $50,000 to an organization dedicated to preventing more gun violence, Governor No-Background-Check threw a tantrum. His spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, tweeted: “Corporations do not have the right to get corporate welfare, turn around and ‘donate’ taxpayer dollars to communist progressive causes nobody voted for.” Wait a minute — sane gun control is a “communist progressive” cause? My God, that makes 89% of Americans communist progressives! DeSantis then figuratively took the Rays’ baseball and chucked it over the fence, vetoing $35 million from Florida’s budget designated for funding a new training facility and youth complex. That will show those damn kids. But wait, there’s more. The New York Yankees joined the Rays in using their Twitter accounts to try to stop the spread of Uvalde-style slaughter of innocents. Hey, New York’s always a juicy DeSantis target, right? But the governor now had his eye on a different sports organization to bully — the Special Olympics. No, I’m not kidding. Why the Special Olympics, which provides sports competition for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities and has earned virtually universal admiration? Could it be because DeSantis idol Trump tried to kill funding for the group in 2019, and he decided to finish the cruel job? What crime did this praiseworthy group commit? One of their requirements for participants to take part in the Special Olympics Games in Orlando this past weekend was to be vaccinated against COVID. Why would DeSantis threaten to fine the Special Olympics $27.5 million for doing what the majority of those reading this column have already done? To appeal to the anti-vax mob, that’s why. Just when you think DeSantis has hit bottom, demonizing gays (his “Don’t Say Gay” bill) and the Rays (“Communist Progressives!) the trap door opens. DeSantis’ threat caused the Special Olympics to drop the vaccine mandate at the last minute, despite the fact that statistics clearly show getting participants vaccinated is likely to save lives. “We don’t want to fight,” said a spokesman for the organization in a statement. “We want to play.” Wow, DeSantis sure kicked their butt! In that mean-spirited tribe where gay tolerance, sane gun control and vaccine protection are dirty words, DeSantis is a brave MAGA warrior. But for the majority of Floridians who support all three, DeSantis has become an out-of-control bully. So yes, Governor DeSantis has now moved his scorched earth, vindictive campaign to the field of sports. But will this continued display of heartlessness be enough for a majority of fed-up Florida voters to say “You’re out” in November?