State officials insist that her claims about hiding virus data are false. She was dismissed, they said, because she made unilateral decisions to modify the virus dashboard without approval. “Our data is available,” Mr. DeSantis said when Ms. Jones was fired. It also includes information from other agencies, such as hospitalization rates from the Agency for Health Care Administration that are not on the state dashboard. Though several of her former co-workers have recently left the department, they have not spoken publicly about why they stopped working there, nor have they joined Ms. Jones’s cause.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2020 10:00 UTC