Want real data from Florida on COVID... as pointed out from the media, Rebekah Jones's portal provides much more complete data than the state's portal which has been fudged for political purposes and is often deliberately weeks behind in data. It is likely the newspapers in the state will be using Rebekah Jones's portal instead of the state's for any future reporting. The woman who said she was fired from the Florida Health Department for refusing to alter coronavirus statistics is now publishing data on her own https://www.insider.com/woman-fired-florida-health-publishing-her-own-covid-19-stats-2020-6 Rebekah Jones, the Florida woman who operated the state's COVID-19 data portal who was fired in May by the state Department of Health, launched her own portal with data about Florida COVID-19 cases, The Washington Post reported. Jones' new portal — Florida's Community Coronavirus Dashboard — pulls data from the Florida Health Department as well as state hospitals and an organization that locates COVID-19 testing facilities, according to the report. Jones was fired from the Florida Health Department after she alleges she refused to resign after she said she was asked to modify data to make certain regions appear like they had met requirements to reopen. On Saturday, Florida reported 2,581 new COVID-19 cases within the previous 24 hours — an all-time high. Rebekah Jones, the 30-year-old woman who was fired from the Florida Department of Health after she said she was asked and refused to modify the state's COVID-19 data, launched her own personal data portal for the state on Thursday, The Washington Post reported. Her website, titled Florida's Community Cornavirus Dashboard, was launched Thursday. The portal relies on data from the FDOH, Jones told The Washington Post, though she said it aggregates the data and portrays it in a way that appropriately contextualizes it. Additionally, Jones said her portal also pulls data from state hospitals and an organization that maps COVID-19 testing locations. "I wanted to build an application that delivered data and helped people get tested and helped them get resources that they need from their community," she told The Washington Post. "And that's what I ended up building with this new dashboard." According to the report, Jones alleges that her managers at the FDOH requested she delete data that showed Florida residents had tested positive for COVID-19 as early as January, which is seemingly odds with Gov. Ron DeSantis' March claims there had been no reported community spread in Florida. Jones said she was asked to alter data to make it appear that certain counties, which had not yet met needed federal criteria, were ready to begin the process of reopening closed businesses and institutions. Jones said the Florida website undercounts the infection total and overcounts the number of people who have been tested, according to the report on Saturday. The Florida Department of Health did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Saturday. Helen Aguirre Ferré, the communications director for DeSantis previously told Business Insider that Jones was fired for "repeated course of insubordination" and her "blatant disrespect for the professionals who were working around the clock to provide the important information for the COVID-19 website." (More at above url) Go here to see her website with real Florida data - https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7572b118dc3c48d885d1c643c195314e/