This was patently untrue, and sensationalist. The absence of a massive, national scandal resulting in the impeachment of DeSantis proves that Florida wasn't hiding anything, months later. Her claims were always made without evidence, and were magnified by partisan actors.
Sure but when you make an absolute claim that something is true, absence of evidence is enough for any reasonable person to disbelieve the claim entirely.
I don't think that's an accurate recounting of the dispute. She wanted some data included; the government didn't because it thought it was invalid/made them look bad; and she disobeyed orders around how and which data to publish, which is what got her fired. I don't think any of that is even in dispute.
The big question is whether you trust Ron DeSantis more to make scientific judgments, or a random low level professional.
It's a few days later, but here's a pretty extensive report on the Florida coverup from the Florida Sun Sentinel, titled "Secrecy and spin: How Florida’s governor misled the public on the COVID-19 pandemic"
It doesn't directly state that hospitalizations numbers were actual lies, but it does demonstrate how the information was spun and presented in a very misleading way.
The absence of a national scandal proves nothing. Proof has to meet a much higher bar than that. Does it lend some support for thinking there was nothing there perhaps. But it is far from proof.
She made an assertion that Florida was hiding covid hospitalizations. Where was the bar of proof then? That which can be asserted with no evidence can be refuted with none as well.
So tons of people in Florida died, and they hid it? Because that's the only way this wouldn't have been a scandal if the private hospitals and public health authorities had colluded to "hide" hospitalizations and deaths.
This was patently untrue, and sensationalist. The absence of a massive, national scandal resulting in the impeachment of DeSantis proves that Florida wasn't hiding anything, months later. Her claims were always made without evidence, and were magnified by partisan actors.