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Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.

The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci. 

“Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got to be willing to do it,” DeSantis told Tucker Carlson at the recent Family Leadership Summit. The DeSantis campaign have even created ads for the campaign theme, failing to mention that it was Vice President Mike Pence who appointed both Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx to his COVID task force.

Now it appears that DeSantis failed to fire his very own Fauci in the shape of Dr. Alina Alonso – a leftist apparatchik who worked for her department (since 1989) for almost as long as Fauci did in his (since 1984).

Dr. Alonso, known as “the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palm Beach County,” was given free rein during the COVID pandemic to enforce arbitrary restrictions upon millions of Floridians, including the implementation of mask mandates, establishment of a COVID hotline for lockdown snitches, and even creating an armed COVID compliance police force. Under her direction, Palm Beach County even shuttered playgrounds when other areas, including outside Florida, had already reversed on the matter. She was subsequently recognized as USA Today‘s “Woman of the Year” for her work in the country, and gloated: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. I’m not being stopped.”

Under the advice of Alonso amongst others, DeSantis ordered major shutdowns of Florida’s beaches and businesses in both Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Palm Beach County has seen teachers suspended teachers for failing to comply with mask mandates, including one who was arrested and convicted. The locale also collected $24,500 in COVID-related fines and shut down a staggering 27 businesses during Dr. Alonso’s tenure. Yet, DeSantis did little to intervene, with one incident from July 2020 where Dr. Rivkees, then the Surgeon General, had contacted Alonso telling her to stay out of the business of reopening schools, but nothing else and certainly nothing further such as firing Florida’s own Fauci, as DeSantis claims he would’ve done had he been President in 2020. Her role lay directly beneath DeSantis’s handpicked Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo from July 2021.

Alonso very publicly called Dr. Fauci “a national hero and a source of inspiration,” as well as her “patron saint” in an interview with the Palm Beach Post. She even laughed off the idea that DeSantis was a more difficult executive to deal with than Donald Trump, telling a reporter, “[Dr. Fauci] has a harder job than me. I got a piece of cake here.”

Alonso made multiple donations to President Biden throughout her stint as Florida’s Fauci, including six donations of $25, two donations of $237.13, and one of $301.08 – all of which were publicly available at the time. She recently retired of her own volition, heralding the tenure – again, under DeSantis – of Dr. Jyothi Gunta, who Alonso herself claims: “will make a great new director.”