After scientist fired, Florida governor calls coronavirus data manipulation charge a 'nonissue'

在科学家被炒鱿鱼后，佛罗里达州州长称冠状病毒数据操纵指控问题是“莫须有”的

SARASOTA, Fla. — Facing an explosive charge that his administration is manipulating coronavirus data to help make the case for reopening Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis played down the controversy Tuesday as a “nonissue.”

佛罗里达州萨拉索塔-面对一项爆炸性指控，即他的政府正在操纵冠状病毒数据，以帮助佛罗里达州重新开放，州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯在周二淡化了这一争议，称之为“莫须有”。

Florida’s COVID-19 death toll topped 2,000 Tuesday, underscoring the serious threat posed by the coronavirus and the potential consequences of not giving people accurate information on the risks involved.

星期二，佛罗里达州因新冠肺炎死亡人数超过2000人，呈现出冠状病毒造成的严重威胁，以及如果不向人们披露有关此次疾病的准确信息会带来怎样潜在的后果。

Health experts say the milestone should serve as a sobering reminder to exercise caution as the state reopens, and DeSantis has presented his reopening plan as a “safe” and “step by step” approach. But the accusations levied by Rebekah Jones, a data expert at the Florida Department of Health, could undercut the governor’s reopening push.

卫生专家们一致认为，这一里程碑应该提醒人们，在国家重新开放之际要谨慎行事，德桑蒂斯提出，他的重新开放计划是一种“安全”和“循序渐进”的做法。但佛罗里达州卫生部数据专家丽贝卡·琼斯提出的指控，可能会为州长对重新开放做出的努力造成羁绊。

Jones wrote in an email last week that she no longer was overseeing the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, which she built and managed for two months.

琼斯上星期在一封邮件里写道，她将不再监视新冠肺炎仪表板，而此项工作是由她所建立并已经做出为期两个月的努力的。

"As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months,” Jones wrote. “After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it."

“作为一个警告，我不希望新的团队继续保持我在前两个月对该过程视为至关重要的可访问性和透明度。”琼斯写道，“毕竟，我对这两者的承诺很大程度上（可以说完全是）正是我不再接管这件事的原因”

But DeSantis said at a Tuesday news conference that Jones sent an email to her supervisor saying the comments were being misinterpreted.

但德桑蒂斯在周二的新闻发布会上说，琼斯给她的主管发了一封电子邮件，说这些评论被曲解了。

“I don’t know who she is but they gave me an email that she sent to her supervisor, said that, ‘Uh oh, I may have said something that was misrepresented,’” DeSantis said.

“我不知道她是谁，但是他们给了我一封她给她的主管写的电子邮件，里面说，’噢不，我可能说了什么让人误解的话了。’”德桑蒂斯说。

He added that Jones went on to write: “I said they’ve got a team working on it now and what I meant when I said don’t expect the same level of accessibility is that they are busy and can’t answer every single email they get right away and that it was ridiculous that I managed to do it in the first place and that I was tired and needed a break from working two months straight."

他还补充说，琼斯还继续写道：“我说过他们现在有一支团队正在进行这项工作，我提到的不希望存在和以前同等程度的可访问性的意思是他们现在很忙，并不能够立即回复他们得到的每一封邮件，还有就是，我觉得我一开始拼命做这项工作是件滑稽的事情，在连续两个月的忙碌后我有些累了，需要暂离这项工作休息一下。”

外文链接：https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/20/coronavirus-florida-gov-ron-desantis-disputes-data-manipulation/5226744002/