That decision cost lives,” said Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democratic former state congressman who filed the lawsuit against the Florida health department, later joined by the Florida Center for Government Accountability.
They needed data, they needed information, but the state made it unavailable, then said it didn’t exist.
Smith said the settlement became inevitable when an appeals court ordered the health department earlier this year to produce documents containing Covid data it claimed did not exist.
Public health analysts, meanwhile, welcomed the resumption of publication of Covid data, and lamented the “politicization” of both the process and the virus.
“He launched his presidential campaign with a continuation of his war on woke and culture wars and gender ideology and all kinds of stuff.
When Republican voters grew tired of that he shifted over to his record on Covid, which still didn’t earn him any points.
He keeps changing the subject to see what sticks, but at the end of the day, whatever he’s selling people aren’t buying. »
