I was interested in this. Ordinarily I would shrug it off, but under current circumstances if a person wants to claim the opposite, they best be prepared.
Yes, that was when he was still listening to Trump about COVID. It was only after Trump called him in March of 2020 that Desantis issued the executive orders re: COVID. But at least he quickly recognized he made a mistake listening to Trump and reopened everything by the beginning of May 2020.