Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data
makomk posted an interesting comment on another thread here 12 hours ago, which I'll paste below. (from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23233097" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23233097</a>)<p>I think I've got a good guess what data she didn't want removed or changed, and it's not exactly good for her case. On May the 5th, they day she was removed from her position, there was an all-time high spike of 113 reported coronavirus deaths due to Florida reporting a bunch of old deaths all at once: <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/15/florida-adds-43-coronavirus-deaths-as-state-continues-to-reopen/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/15/florida-adds...</a><p>This did not represent an actual spike in deaths which had in reality been declining, but if I remember rightly some people did spin it as deaths increasing due to the lockdown being lifted. Deaths by date reported are conspicuously missing from the current version of the dashboard; it only has dates by date of death, which is far less favourable to the claim that lifting the lockdown is causing an increase in deaths.