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Yeah, I'm already seeing reports from other sources that the Florida data is now harder to access -- data going missing or unavailable for download, site crashing [1]. That would tend to support her remarks.

[1] https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/05/18/censorshi...

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This is additional context: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495295-florida-orde...

Further context: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medi...

A spokesperson for the health department’s Hillsborough County office said a lag in reporting accounts for some of the difference. The health department is also excluding some snowbirds and other seasonal residents, along with visitors who died in Florida, from its count. The medical examiners are including anyone who died in Florida.

They stopped counting snowbirds cause that made the counts go down magically. Just like when the state prohibited medical examiners from giving results out (which is unprecedented in Florida). It's very clear they are going step by step to hide the true death count.

I just downloaded the entire dataset. All the same data seems to be there. Confusingly, this includes the "EventDate" field that she had been asked to remove.

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