A woman who said she was fired for refusing to manipulate pandemic figures for Florida officials was actually fired for insubordination, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said.
“Rebekah Jones exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the department, including her unilateral decisions to modify the department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors,” DeSantis spokeswoman Helen Ferre said in a statement sent to news outlets.
