'I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency,' Rebekah Jones wrote in an email to dashboard users.
Rebekah Jones, an official at the Florida Department of Health who oversaw the state's public COVID-19"dashboard," has been removed from managing the data and cautioned that the decision could negatively impact transparency about infections.
In an email to users of Florida's novel coronavirus data portal, Jones, the geographic information system manager for the Florida Health Department's Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, said that she had been removed from overseeing the dashboard. Jones noted that this decision had been made for"reasons beyond my division's control.
"As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months," the official wrote in the email."After all, my commitment to both is largely the reason I am no longer managing it." A crowd of beachgoers watches the U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform a flyover on May 8 in Jacksonville, Florida, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.has reached out to the Florida Department of Health and the office of Governor Ron DeSantis for comment.The Miami Herald"The Florida COVID-19 Dashboard was created by the Geographic Information System team in the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection at the Florida Department of Health.
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