Coronavirus
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The woman who created and ran Florida’s online coronavirus data site has been fired, just days after she said she fought the state Department of Health’s efforts to make the data harder to access for the public, researchers and the media.
Rebekah Jones, whose work to build the user-friendly COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard drew praise and publicity, said her commitment to maximum transparency resulted in her removal from the dashboard project. Then, days later, she lost her job.
Internal emails indicate Jones resisted when her bosses told her to remove the raw data from the website, meaning that users could no longer download it for analysis.
The data had just been downloaded and used by newspapers to report that sickness in Florida emerged as early as January, a fact that led some to second-guess whether Republican Govenor Ron DeSantis acted quickly enough to shut down the state.
In a May 4 email from Jones to Department of Health IT Director Craig Curry, she wrote: “I’m not pulling our primary resource for coronavirus data because he wants to stick it to journalists and make them copy and paste from the tables in the pdfs. If it’s in the dashboard, it’s public. Period. There is no way around that.
- in january no one cared. but does question bigger timelines of china outbreak and wuhan lab shutdowns and measures of "sick" for jan-feb********
- are growth lines and spread correct if not measured earlier?********
- in january no one cared. but does question bigger timelines of china outbreak and wuhan lab shutdowns and measures of "sick" for jan-feb