Florida fired its data scientist after she refused to juke the stats to support reopening. Now, @GeoRebekah maintains her own dashboard washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06… as #covid19 cases rise: covidactnow.org/us/
Sources: @CovidActNow @nytimes @COVID19Tracking CovidExitStrategy.org
This week, @GeoRebekah wrote about a high-risk Florida teen who died from #covid19 after attending a church “party” & then being given hydroxychloroquine by her parents washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07…
Her mom was anti-vaccine & a QAnon conspiracist. Lies can kill.
To make it clearer, the Florida #Covid19 dashboard @GeoRebekah made & maintains is here:
floridacovidaction.com
CovidActNow.org was made & maintained by a team of technologists, academics, & doctors.
The #COVID19 Exit Strategy site was built by @USDResponse public health & crisis experts: covidexitstrategy.org/about
All of these tools showcase how folks can use the Web, data, & expertise to inform & engage Americans about this pandemic.
#opengov #opendata #civictech
This is not the first parent who hasn’t gotten a sick child care because of their beliefs:
“At least 50 Christian Scientists have been charged with murder or manslaughter after their children died of diseases curable by modern medicine.” rlp.hds.harvard.edu/files/hds-rlp/…
US Supreme Court, 1944: “The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death” law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/t…
SCOTUS 1944: “Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full & legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.” #covid19
SCOTUS 2020: “Our Constitution principally entrusts “[t]he safety & the health of the people’ to the politically accountable officials of the States ‘to guard & protect.’” supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
This applies to #masks4all, vaccinations, & restrictions on large public gatherings.
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