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 76 document sets available as of August 12, 2020, and news coverage that have used those materials.
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Recently Added Record Sets
Port of San Diego, California
Date Updated: August 12, 2020
Date Added: August 12, 2020
Santa Clara County, San Diego, San Francisco, California
Principal Subject: This material includes emails and newsletters across San Francisco, Bay Area, and Santa Clara
These documents include emails sent to, from, or copied to Randa Coniglio, Chief Executive Officer of Port of San Diego
Date Range: April 7, 2020, to May 5, 2020
Format Details: PDF, 1,332 pages
West Virginia Health COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: August 10, 2020
Date Added: August 10, 2020
Department of Health and Human Resources, West Virginia
Principal Subject: Bill J. Crouch, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
This material includes email correspondence, and underlying documentation contained within, between Jan. 1, 2020, and March 31, 2020, that was sent to, from, or copied to Bill J. Crouch, containing any of the following non-case sensitive key-strings: "2019-nCoV"; "coronavirus"; "COVID-19"; "COVID"
Date Range: March 2020
Format Details: PDF, 316 pages, additional zipped files including ppt, doc and xls files
Mecklenburg County Health Department COVID-19 emails and response
Date Updated: August 6, 2020
Date Added: August 6, 2020
Mecklenburg, North Carolina
Principal Subject: Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris
These documents include emails sent from, to or copied to Public Health Director Gibbie Harris regarding local response to COVID-19.
Date Range: May 1 to June 25, 2020
Format Details: .pdf (56.5MB, 1508 pages)
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