Florida IG report: 'Insufficient evidence' for DeSantis critic's claims of Covid cover-up
Source: NBC News
A prominent critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Covid response made unsubstantiated and "unfounded" claims that state health officials had fired her because she refused to present manipulated data online, according to an inspector generals report obtained by NBC News on Thursday.
The 27-page report from the Florida Department of Healths Office of Inspector General said it found "insufficient evidence" or no evidence to support Rebekah Jones' accusations that she was asked to falsify Covid positivity rates or misrepresent them on the states dashboard she helped design. The report also "exonerated" officials accused by Jones of wrongdoing because they removed a data section from the website to ensure that private individual health information was not released publicly.
The independent report paints a portrait of an employee who did not understand public health policy or the significance of epidemiological data, did not have high-level access to crucial information and leveled claims that made professional health officials "skeptical."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-ig-report-insufficient-evidence-desantis-critics-claims-covid-rcna30647
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,765 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Or, they're appointed by DeathSantis, and they lie and are just as crooked as DeathSantis.
I'll hold judgement on whomever asserted that Jones was lying with her case
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)on a Caribbean Isle, with umbrella's in a rum punch.
sakabatou
(42,180 posts)stopdiggin
(11,384 posts)and as much damage as the man has wrought (Covid and otherwise) - Jones was a poor choice to hang a hat on from the very beginning. Suggesting no real surprise here from anyone that had been following her 'case.'