Documenting COVID-19

Documenting COVID-19 is a repository of searchable documents related to the COVID-19 pandemic obtained through state open-records laws and the Freedom of Information Act. Click on a state for details about the 291 record sets available as of April 17, 2022, and news coverage that have used those materials.

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Recently Added Record Sets

Michigan mink COVID-19 cases emails

Date Updated: April 17, 2022

Date Added: April 17, 2022

Eaton County, Michigan

Principal Subject: J. Daniel Woodall and Colette Scrimger, medical director and health officer, Barry-Eaton District Health Department

This material includes the Barry-Eaton District Health Department's response to mink-to-human COVID-19 cases among a taxidermist and his wife in Eaton County, Michigan, in late 2020 and early 2021.

Date Range: February 8, 2021

Format Details: .pdf (4 pages)

Idaho hospital patient transfer data analysis, January to November 2021

Date Updated: March 16, 2022

Date Added: March 16, 2022

Idaho

Highlighted Documents: Idaho hospital patient transfer data analysis

Principal Subject: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

An analysis of patient transfer data by the Documenting COVID-19 project, using data from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for the story: "Idaho COVID-19 surge drove patient transfers, strained out-of-state hospitals, new data shows," with the Idaho Capital Sun.

Date Range: January 1 to November 30, 2021

Format Details: .xlsx with a readme

Utah Test to Stay emails

Date Updated: March 7, 2022

Date Added: March 7, 2022

Utah

Highlighted Documents: Emails Attachments

Principal Subject: Utah Department of Health

Emails to and from Maggie Graul, the Utah DOH's program manager for COVID-19 testing in schools, discussing plans for Test to Stay events at K-12 schools in the fall 2021 semester.

Date Range: July 27 to Dec. 31, 2021

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