As Florida releases new COVID-19 death data, one medical examiner defies state’s secrecy The Florida Department of Law Enforcement released new data Thursday on Floridians who have died from COVID-19. And as has been its custom, the state didn’t provide the names of the dead.
But one prominent medical examiner refused to go along.
Stephen Nelson, medical examiner for Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties as well as chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, did his own records release for his own counties, and it includes what the state left out: names of those who have succumbed to the disease.
“It IS all public information,†said Nelson, responding by email to a question from the Miami Herald.............
..........Nelson’s release of the names drew a sharp contrast with the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, which has released some information only after being pressured or sued by the news media. .............
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