Just Like Arizona, Florida Has A Conservative Republican 'Mini-Trump' Governor - but There's One Difference

A Florida newspaper investigation finds state government misled public on Covid as cases rose -  Governor Ron DeSantis and his administration ‘suppressed facts’ and ‘dispensed dangerous misinformation’, according to paper . . .Sounds familiar?  looks like the same staging   

 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds a press conference on 30 November 2020. Photograph: Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/AP

 

Florida newspaper investigation finds state government misled public on Covid as cases rose

Guardian staff

the Guardian | Fri 4 Dec 2020 08.07 EST Last modified on Fri 4 Dec 2020 10.45 

"Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration has been engaged in a pattern of spin and concealment about Covid-19 amid the gravest health threat the state has ever faced, according to a South Florida Sun Sentinel investigation.

According to the newspaper, Republican DeSantis influenced a state administration that “suppressed unfavorablefacts, dispensed dangerous misinformation, dismissed public health professionals, and promoted the views of scientific dissenters”who supported the governor’s ambivalent approach to the disease. . .THE TRUMP PLAY-BOOK

Florida’s leading university-affiliated experts on infectious diseases have been largely sidelined and bypassed.

“We have over 200 affiliated faculty within this institute,” Glenn Morris, director of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, told the Sun Sentinel.

“This is what we do for a living. Yet the state has not taken full advantage of that expertise.”