Rebekah D. Jones is an American data scientist, geographer, and whistleblower. She specialized in geographic information system data science to track hurricanes, epidemiology, and climatology. Jones made headlines in May 2020 after alleging that the Florida Department of Health pressured her to strategically align COVID-19 case data with Florida’s goal to reopen the state.
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Rebekah D. Jones is an American data scientist, geographer, and whistleblower. She specialized in geographic information system data science to track hurricanes, epidemiology, and climatology. Jones made headlines in May 2020 after alleging that the Florida Department of Health pressured her to strategically align COVID-19 case data with Florida’s goal to reopen the state. She was fired for violating Health Department policy by making public remarks about the data. Despite protests by Nikki Fried, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Jones was not reinstated. Jones was profiled by The Washington Post and Time after she founded the non-profit group Florida Covid Action. On December 7, 2020, state police raided Jones’ home including her personal phone and laptop.
She posted a video of the encounter on her Twitter page a day later claiming to have spoken to the same official who had defended Jones in May, claiming that she had already spoken to another official. The same official had reacted quickly on Twitter claiming that Jones had spoken to a different official, claiming she was suspected of hacking into a Florida Health Department computer system and sending an unauthorized message to members of the State Emergency Response Team on November 10, 2020. Jones is currently working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis. Her doctoral work is in progress.
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