LETTERSTOTHEEDITOR

Our investigation into secrecy and spin inside the DeSantis administration, which relied on dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of documents, found that the administration ordered county health departments not to talk about the coronavirus ahead of the November election; denied person-to-person infection in the state while it was occurring; withheld information on infection in schools, prisons and hospitals; and cherry-picked statistics and experts until it found those that would paint the rosiest possible picture of the pandemic in Florida. The investigation printed in both the Sun Sentinel and our sister paper the Orlando Sentinel and was produced by Sun Sentinel reporters Mario Ariz a, David Fleshler and Cindy Krischer Goodman.