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Ron DeSantis blasts ‘partisan narrative’ after fired employee claims Florida tried to skew coronavirus data

By Madison Dibble
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Ron DeSantis blasts ‘partisan narrative’ after fired employee claims Florida tried to skew coronavirus data

Gov. Ron DeSantis questioned the motives of a dismissed state employee who claimed that Florida is trying to mask its coronavirus numbers.

The Republican was asked to respond to Rebekah Jones, a former employee of the Florida Department of Health behind the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, who said she was fired on Monday for refusing to manipulate COVID-19 data to “drum up support for the plan to reopen.”

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