Rebekah Jones says she was fired from her job at the Florida Health Department for refusing to manipulate data on its coronavirus dashboard so the state would appear to meet its target to reopen. Now, she has launched her own dashboard.
The Florida Department of Health did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron De Santis said last month that Jones"exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the department."Jones and her attorney are now looking into whether she might be protected by a whistleblower law. Jones says she had asked at work how to file a whistleblower complaint, and was fired the next day.
She says that on the state's dashboard, any person who tests positive will be counted as a positive test only once, no matter how many times they test positive. But a person who tests negative will be counted over and over again each time they test negative for the coronavirus. "They're adding their total test figures instead of their total people, which makes their percent positive extremely low," she says., a professor of epidemiology at the University of Florida, finds Jones' dashboard to be more comprehensive than the state's.
She also notes that the state's site doesn't appear to use the"total people tested" label accurately.
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