The office overseeing Florida’s Covid-19 data dashboard no longer has authority over the tool, according to multiple reports—raising questions about the state’s data accuracy and transparency commitments as it reopens by lisettevoytko
, Jones claimed that her office was removed after she refused to"manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."
White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborax Birx previously praised Florida’s dashboard in an April: “That’s the kind of knowledge and power we need to put into the hands of American people.”that in recent weeks, the dashboard has crashed or gone offline, while some of the data has disappeared or become difficult to access.
“Although Rebekah Jones is no longer involved, the GIS team continues to manage and update the Dashboard providing accurate and important information that is publicly accessible,” a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement to the"The virus doesn't really give a damn if you hide its numbers,” said University of Central Florida researcher Jennifer Larsen to
in response to Jones’ office being sidelined."We would not accept this lack of transparency for any other natural disaster, so why are we willing to accept it here?", DeSantis has spoken favorably about his administration’s data transparency during the coronavirus pandemic. The Covid-19 dashboard created by Jones’ office in the state Department of Health is designed to show case counts that can be viewed by county, zip code and day, along with hospitalizations and the death toll.
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