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Florida reports 47 new coronavirus deaths, 527 new cases a week out from major launch expected to draw visitors

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Florida health officials are standing by the data they make public about coronavirus cases in the state after a key personnel member who managed the COVID-19 database was fired earlier this week.

According to the latest data from the Florida Department of Health, there are 527 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases in Florida to 47,471 since early March.

The DOH releases data of coronavirus cases once a day in the form of an interactive dashboard. Rebekah Jones, the head of a team of Florida Department of Health data scientists and public health officers and architect of that database, was removed from her position last week causing outcry from concerned researchers.

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