Florida COVID-19 Dashboard is lookin' good....

[seminole97]

They've changed the layout a little bit.

Overall positive rate continues to fall.

Case distribution demographics.

 

[seminole97]

Florida will be making NYC look like a safe haven in two or three weeks.

Florida is without a doubt hiding deaths. It is pathetic.

 

[seminole97]

They fixed the panes that were busted on the right hand side.
Finally fixed the layout as well for the bottom right, previously it was an unreadable hot mess that I tried to avoid posting (the positives and negatives were jumbled together, instead of the stacked graph showing now).
The positive test target (red line in the top right pane above) of 10% is a recent change. I recall seeing it at 5% when I first observed it (bottom right pane below).

 

[Chishawk1425]

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...moved-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/

 

[Finance85]

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...moved-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/

Seminole97 works there.

 

[seminole97]

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...moved-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/florida-steaming-right-along.316530/page-3#post-7726086

Here's what I've found so far regarding specifics of what Jones was asked to change:

"According to internal emails reviewed by the Times, Department of Health I.T. Director Craig Curry emailed Rebekah Jones just before 5 p.m. on May 5. He cited Dr. Carina Blackmore, Director for the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection.

“Per Dr. Blackmore, disable the ability to export the data to files from the dashboard immediately. We need to ensure that dates (date fields) in all objects match their counterpart on the PDF line list published,” Curry wrote.

The tables in the PDF documents did not include the column of data showing when symptoms were first reported, only the “Case Date” — the date the state recorded and confirmed the case."



So, no removal of bodies (Tribe has made that contention, but it's not in this story), or test results from the dashboard is being alleged behind the words like 'censor' or 'asked to change the data'.
So far what the paper has shown is that she was asked to remove a date column that didn't appear in another list.

What does that change about what has been presented here regarding test results and deaths?

 

[RileyHawk]

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/florida-steaming-right-along.316530/page-3#post-7726086

Here's what I've found so far regarding specifics of what Jones was asked to change:

"According to internal emails reviewed by the Times, Department of Health I.T. Director Craig Curry emailed Rebekah Jones just before 5 p.m. on May 5. He cited Dr. Carina Blackmore, Director for the Division of Disease Control and Health Protection.

“Per Dr. Blackmore, disable the ability to export the data to files from the dashboard immediately. We need to ensure that dates (date fields) in all objects match their counterpart on the PDF line list published,” Curry wrote.

The tables in the PDF documents did not include the column of data showing when symptoms were first reported, only the “Case Date” — the date the state recorded and confirmed the case."



So, no removal of bodies (Tribe has made that contention, but it's not in this story), or test results from the dashboard is being alleged behind the words like 'censor' or 'asked to change the data'.
So far what the paper has shown is that she was asked to remove a date column that didn't appear in another list.

What does that change about what has been presented here regarding test results and deaths?

What does it change? Potentially a lot of data since May 5th. Certainly worth investigating.

After FLORIDA TODAY first reported Jones' removal from her position in charge of the Florida COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard she created, she confirmed, as reported by CBS-12 in West Palm Beach that she was fired because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."

 

[seminole97]

What does it change? Potentially a lot of data since May 5th. Certainly worth investigating.

Did you read what was requested to be changed?
It doesn't alter any of the counts presented here.
I don't even know where the referenced date field existed graphically on the dashboard.

Again, very open records laws here.
The newspaper has already requested and read Rebekah Jones' emails.
She's not under any gag order regarding what she may have been asked to suppress.
This needn't be a mystery.
I would like to see her interviewed and learn what else she was asked to not incorporate in the dashboard or underlying data files.
I would greatly prefer that to sensationalizing and innuendo.

 

[RileyHawk]

Did you read what was requested to be changed?
It doesn't alter any of the counts presented here.
I don't even know where the referenced date field existed graphically on the dashboard.

Again, very open records laws here.
The newspaper has already requested and read Rebekah Jones' emails.
She's not under any gag order regarding what she may have been asked to suppress.
This needn't be a mystery.
I would like to see her interviewed and learn what else she was asked to not incorporate in the dashboard or underlying data files.
I would greatly prefer that to sensationalizing and innuendo.

It would be unusual for someone to refuse to make an innocuous change, but it's certainly possible. Definitely should be investigated.

I don't think we know what her termination details are.

 

[HawkRugged17]

 

[seminole97]

It would be unusual for someone to refuse to make an innocuous change, but it's certainly possible. Definitely should be investigated.
I don't think we know what her termination details are.

The thing that got her fired I would assume would be talking to the press directly. I guess the news stories with her interview broke Monday and they cut off her access at the end of that day.

With regard to her re-assignment:

"Afterward, the governor's spokeswoman, Helen Ferre, said in an email that Jones had “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination," asserting that Jones had made “unilateral decisions to modify the Department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors.”"

It's easy to spin a tale different ways, especially the fewer facts we possess.
If I changed just our public facing website's content without getting my boss' approval it's not going to go over well.
If I did it over and over again I have no doubt they'd take away my ability to do so.
Now imagine the entire country has focus on our website. I think I'd be lucky to stay employed.

This story is fantastic for the sensational appeal of critical public health data being altered, but the only specific reference so far doesn't alter anything regarding the counts or current response.

I look forward to her future interviews and more information from this coming to light.

 

[RileyHawk]

The thing that got her fired I would assume would be talking to the press directly. I guess the news stories with her interview broke Monday and they cut off her access at the end of that day.

With regard to her re-assignment:

"Afterward, the governor's spokeswoman, Helen Ferre, said in an email that Jones had “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination," asserting that Jones had made “unilateral decisions to modify the Department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors.”"

It's easy to spin a tale different ways, especially the fewer facts we possess.
If I changed just our public facing website's content without getting my boss' approval it's not going to go over well.
If I did it over and over again I have no doubt they'd take away my ability to do so.
Now imagine the entire country has focus on our website. I think I'd be lucky to stay employed.

This story is fantastic for the sensational appeal of critical public health data being altered, but the only specific reference so far doesn't alter anything regarding the counts or current response.

I look forward to her future interviews and more information from this coming to light.

Didn't she develop the dashboard by herself over two months? Who else would make changes?

She may very well have been insubordinate, perhaps because she wouldn't make changes to the data to promote opening up. Maybe not. It's worth investigating thoroughly though.

She was fired before she talked to the press as I understand it.

 

[Finance85]

It would be unusual for someone to refuse to make an innocuous change, but it's certainly possible. Definitely should be investigated.

I don't think we know what her termination details are.

Agree

 

[artradley]

If someone goes through the trouble of making a meme, they take the time to make sure there are no your vs you’re issues.

 

[HawkRugged17]

If someone goes through the trouble of making a meme, they take the time to make sure there are no your vs you’re issues.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...moved-florida-moves-re-open-state/5212398002/

It's not everyday you'd expect to see your small, local FL newspaper linked in an Iowa message board.

 

[The Tradition]

It's not everyday you'd expect to see your small, local FL newspaper linked in an Iowa message board.

I post articles from the Daytona Beach News Journal all the time.