Vindication, Part I

A bombshell article from the Miami-Herald begins sifting fact from fiction on what went down at DOH.

When articles came out last summer detailing how data was being hidden or misrepresented, and how scientists were sidelined in Florida during COVID-19, people asked me if it was vindication.

After all, Dr. Fauci said publicly that Florida opening up was a mistake, and state employees begged Desantis to show an ounce of sympathy for their lives (which he didn’t) in a public letter.

I got the same question in the fall, and again in the winter, when stories came out in the Sun Sentinel about Ron Desantis’ mishandling of COVID-19, corroborated by persons across state agencies.

Then came the Public Health Accreditation Board’s (PHAB) leaked findings that DOH misled and misrepresented COVID-19 case data regarding K12 students and staff just a few weeks ago.

A week later - the unexpected letter came that the Department of Health’s Inspector General’s office (DOH-IG) granted me whistleblower protection and found “reasonable cause” that everything I said was true and worth further investigating.

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