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Updated: No data tampering conspiracy in Florida:

State Records Show [data dashboard operator] Fired For Violating Health Department Policy On Public Remarks

Dangerous to have a rogue employee mishandling data & refusing to follow directions. https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/05/24/state-records-show-rebekah-jones-fired-violating-health-department-policy-public-remarks/

State Records Show Rebekah Jones Fired For Violating Health Department Policy On Public Remarks

State records show that Rebekah Jones, the woman who helped curate Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard, had been reprimanded several times and ultimately fired for violating Health Department policy by...

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/05/24/state-records-show-rebekah-jones-fired-violating-health-department-policy-public-remarks/

This episode was latched on to early by political partisans who neglected to dig into any facts instead indulging a massive conspiracy theory.

How would you like a data entry employee constantly questioning your instructions & then sending raw health data out the back door?

There are proper procedures to report legitimate concerns about scientific integrity and research ethics within FL Dept of Health. There is also a big difference between being a whistleblower and a mole with a political agenda feeding unverified health data to media. Insane.

"...her last work day was Thursday, after a pattern of overstepping her duties as data manager. The final straw came May 15, when she vented in emails to researchers and other data recipients that she’d been reassigned, suggesting they should now doubt the data’s integrity."

"Because I created and managed the dashboard by myself, I was the only person who could alter it or the data behind it, so they had to go come to me with requests to make changes."

This "they had to go through me" attitude is not going to work. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/23/rebekah-jones-fired-florida-health-department-scientist-covid-19-data-interference/5249295002/

Fired scientist defends her COVID-19 data role, portrays Florida Dept. of Health as corrupt

While she makes no assertion Governor Ron DeSantis was involved, Jones paints senior FDOH officials trying to change data to favor reopening.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/23/rebekah-jones-fired-florida-health-department-scientist-covid-19-data-interference/5249295002/

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