Florida’s Republican governor is now complying with some of the state’s “sunshine laws” requiring transparency thanks to a settlement with an independent watchdog group requires the state to release three years’ worth of the state’s data regarding the spread and impact of coronavirus, including information the state Department of Health falsely claimed at one point it didn’t have, the Palm Beach Post reports.

The Florida Department of Health, under the direction of transplanted Nigerian doctor Joseph Ladapo who was recruited from California, has long been suspected of manipulating the pandemic virus like they were Trump property values.  One-time state worker Rebekah Jones alleged the governor’s office ordered staffers to manipulate the data being released to try to undercount the number of infections and deaths in the state to pump up Republican Governor’s Ron DeSantis conservative profile.

The data, released as a result of a lawsuit from Florida Center for Government Accountability sought information on the number of case and the days where the cases were reported along with number of pediatric cases, hospitalizations and fatalities.  The group also received information on vaccinations, data that will be interesting given DeSantis’s 2021 public flip-flop on their effectiveness.  With one of the top ten highest Covid fatality rates in the nation, FCGA alleges DeSantis’s distribution of misinformation about the pandemic cost thousands of Floridians their lives.