As state leaders call for an investigation into the removal of the woman who designed Florida's much-lauded COVID-19 dashboard, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday called the situation a "non-issue."
Rebekah Jones was tasked to publish COVID-19 data to the site, which tracks cases, deaths, hospitalizations and more on a daily basis -- at least twice a day during the peak of the pandemic.
In an email dated May 15, sent to a group of people who get coronavirus updates and obtained by 10Investigates through a source at USF Health, Jones said her office stopped maintaining the system on May 5 "for reasons beyond" their control.
