Rebekah Jones reportedly balked at changing data to 'drum up' support for reopening the state.
But the governor’s office had been praised by President Donald Trump and others for creating a COVID-19 dashboard that had given daily updates on the death toll, number of cases and coronavirus tests in every county in the state.
Earlier, Dr. Stephen Nelson, who is chairman of Florida’s state Medical Examiners Commission, confirmed to NBC that the procedure for posting the ME figures was changed in April after the state health department intervened. When NBC News requested the coronavirus death list from the Florida Department of Health, it was sent a compilation in which the categories “probable causes of death” and “case descriptions” were blacked out.
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