The Tampa Bay Times reports that the Florida Department of Health tried to stop a tally of Coronavirus deaths reported by 22 medical examiners from being released to the public. The newspaper started investigating after noticing that the medical examiner’s death tally from Coronavirus was 10% higher than the tally reported by Florida’s health department.
The Chairman of the state’s Medical Examiner’s Commission said they were asked to change their policy by the state’s health department and another medical examiner said state officials plan to remove case descriptions and causes of death from the list.
Many are demanding that the full list be made available to the public – seeing that taxpayers are the ones paying state officials salaries. The list has been made unavailable to the public now for nine days.
