Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Cody McCloud said in an email to NewsNation that a main reason for the potential change is that the Florida Department of Health needs to keep on staff 24 hours a day to generate the reports.
He did not indicate a timetable for this change, or if the reports would be coming out weekly instead.
The department has put out daily reports since the beginning of the pandemic, transitioning from releasing two reports to just one in April.
The Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard displays data on cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in Florida. Florida has had just over 16,000 coronavirus-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
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This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2020.
