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Rebekah Jones in her office at the Florida Department of Health. [Photo courtesy of Rebekah Jones]
Ousted manager was told to manipulate COVID-19 data before state’s re-opening, she says
Rebekah Jones said the deputy Secretary of Health asked for misleading data on rural counties. She appeared later Friday night to discuss on CNN.
May 22• Health
Ron DeSantis: Florida ‘lifting all restrictions on youth activities’
Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference in Jacksonville on May 22, 2020. [Florida Channel]
This includes summer camps.
May 22• The Buzz
Florida’s unemployment system breached, 98 claimants’ data hacked
- [State of Florida]
No information was released on when the hack took place, how many accounts were opened or if the breach will affect people being able to receive unemployment benefits.
May 22• Health
Florida made $283 million in deals because it feared COVID-19
Army Corp Administrative Contracting Officer Nestor Rivera shows what an ICU unit will look like at the Miami Beach Convention Center as the Army Corps' builds a coronavirus field hospital inside the facility on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. [AL DIAZ | adiaz@miamiherald.com]
Using those same models he criticized the media for citing. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration became so concerned about hospital overcrowding that it signed $283 million in no-bid deals to build...
May 21• Health

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    Yesterday• Health
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  3. Ousted manager was told to manipulate COVID-19 data before state’s re-opening, she says
    May 22• Health
    Rebekah Jones in her office at the Florida Department of Health. [Photo courtesy of Rebekah Jones]
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  5. Ron DeSantis: Florida ‘lifting all restrictions on youth activities’
    May 22• The Buzz
    Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference in Jacksonville on May 22, 2020. [Florida Channel]
  6. Florida’s unemployment system breached, 98 claimants’ data hacked
    May 22• Health
    - [State of Florida]
  7. Florida Supreme Court reverses itself again on death penalty legal issue
    May 21• The Buzz
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  8. Florida says no evidence of fraud in 2018 mail vote fraud probe
    May 21• The Buzz
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  9. Florida coalition that paid CEO $7.5 million has its money taken over by receiver
    May 21• The Buzz
    Tiffany Carr, former executive director of Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, speaks at a 2004 news conference held by Gov. Jeb Bush. [PHIL COALE | AP]
  10. Mike Pence in Orlando: Florida 'leading the way to open up America again’
    May 20• The Buzz
    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Vice President Mike Pence participate in a roundtable discussion with hospitality and tourism industry leaders to discuss their plans for re-opening at Rosen Shingle Creek, 9939 Universal Boulevard on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 in Orlando. [DIRK SHADD | Times]
  11. PolitiFact: Donald Trump doesn’t meet the definition of morbidly obese
    May 20• The Buzz
    President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday in Washington. [EVAN VUCCI | AP]
  12. Possible Biden VP pick Val Demings blasts Pence in Florida
    May 19• The Buzz
    Rep. Val Demings, D-Orlando [AP]
  13. Gov. Ron DeSantis appoints new Pinellas Supervisor of Elections
    May 19• Health
    Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Julie Marcus. [YouTube]
  14. Democrats need more money if they’re going to take back Florida House, group says
    May 19• The Buzz
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  15. Florida Attorney General to federal judge: Drop the Michael Flynn case
    May 19• The Buzz
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  16. Marco Rubio will chair Senate Intelligence Committee
    May 18• The Buzz
    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 24. [PATRICK SEMANSKY | AP]
  17. Floridians have gotten $2 billion in unemployment so far, Gov. Ron DeSantis says. That’s not great.
    May 18• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, arrives for a news conference during the new coronavirus pandemic, Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Doral, Fla. DeSantis has signed an executive order for the reopening of Miami-Dade and Broward counties on May 18. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) [LYNNE SLADKY | AP]
  18. Pence to visit Orlando nursing home, talk tourism on Wednesday
    May 18• The Buzz
    Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis take questions during a Florida Coronavirus Response Meeting, at the West Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. [TERRY RENNA | AP]
  19. After pleas, Florida requests federal coronavirus money for election
    May 15• Health
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  20. Florida’s prison COVID-19 cases spark lawsuit from civil rights group
    May 15• Health
    Blackwater River Correctional Facility. [Florida Department of Corrections]
  21. Ron DeSantis says unemployed are to blame for Florida application problems
    May 15• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference during the new coronavirus pandemic, Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Doral, Fla. DeSantis has signed an executive order for the reopening of Miami-Dade and Broward counties on May 18. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) [LYNNE SLADKY | AP]
  22. Ron DeSantis: Florida Gyms will reopen starting Monday
    May 15• Health
    Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference in Jacksonville on May 15, 2020. [Florida Channel]
  23. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club set to reopen this weekend
    May 15• Health
    Mar-a-Lago, built by Marjorie Merriweather Post in Palm Beach in 1927, was bought by Donald Trump in 1985. [WILFREDO LEE | AP]
  24. Ron DeSantis sounds like he’s about to reopen gyms in parts of Florida
    May 14• The Buzz
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. [LYNNE SLADKY | AP]
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