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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Auditor General Confirms Charges by Whistleblower Rebekah Jones Against FL-DOH
https://www.rebekahjonescampaign.com/so/f8O54iowY?Gross mismanagement of COVID-19 data, including inaccurate, Incomplete, and delayed reporting, put millions of Floridians at risk and undermined states efforts to fight the virus
Two years after former Department of Health scientist Rebekah Jones told state officials she was asked to conceal and distort COVID-19 infection rates, the Florida Auditor General confirms that Department of Health (DOH) and other entities provided inaccurate or incomplete data, lacked effective access controls in the systems used to gather data, and impacted the States ability to accurately report COVID-19 data at the beginning of the pandemic.
Jones was terminated in May of 2020 after refusing to manipulate COVID-19 data as requested by her supervisors. Jones was the architect and manager of the DOH COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard, the primary resource by which Floridians could access the most accurate and up to date information. Jones subsequently filed a claim for wrongful termination with the Florida Commission of Human Relations (FCHR), where her case is still pending. Jones was afforded legal whistleblower protections in May 2021, a designation she still holds.
truth does not exist in the backwards world of "the others".
Sancho
(9,088 posts)...unfortunately many have forgotten.
I remember it.
bluboid
(654 posts)towerbum
(263 posts)that gov. DeShitStain put our kid's down there in jeopardy ! Need's to charged with dereliction of duty ! plus , death's of people for no reason! they got proof now , go after him !
Historic NY
(37,760 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,214 posts)OnDoutside
(20,600 posts)modrepub
(3,589 posts)But I hope more folks will realize that politicians are not the best folks to listen to during a pandemic. Furthermore, they should be the last folks to oversee data collection that would point to a problem (that they refuse to address).
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Very few candidates for public office have experienced the full weight of a corrupt regime's power and walked away stronger, smarter and better for it. That's the candidate Rebekah Jones is and it's why you should support her campaign to defeat Matt Gaetz today.
Raven123
(5,876 posts)genxlib
(5,646 posts)Just a week ago, the Department Inspector General came to the opposite conclusion
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/05/27/rebekkah-jones-report-fails-support-claims-florida-covid-19-data-doctored/9953780002/
Looks like the powers that be were trying to get ahead of the recent report and set the narrative.
jaxexpat
(7,589 posts)I've been half expecting to hear she'd died or was found in an ubliat in Destin.
scarletlib
(3,477 posts)It was news down here at the time and reported about all the things he was having done to suppress the true numbers of Covid deaths
He had lied and fudged numbers from the beginning for his own fascistic agenda.
Evolve Dammit
(18,285 posts)onetexan
(13,732 posts)her for not going along with his lies. This devil needs to be charged & removed from office.
AmBlue
(3,407 posts)Too bad so many Florida legislators can't say the same. She's running for Matt Gaetz' seat. We should put her in it!!