Documenting COVID-19

Record Set(s)

Hart Island, New York, request for proposals (RFP) for burial management contract

Date Updated: November 12, 2021

Date Added: November 12, 2021

Bronx County, NY

Principal Subject: New York City Department of Social Services and Human Resources Administration

The New York City Department of Social Services and Human Resources Administration awarded a three-year, $33 million contract to manage Hart Island to a Brooklyn landscaping company, JPL Industries. It includes a 215-page request for proposals (RFP) and responses from prospective bidders.

Date Range: January 1 to August 3, 2021

Format Details: zipped file (10.3 MB) of several .pdf and .xlsx files

California Bay Area COVID-19 and overdose death records

Date Updated: May 24, 2021

Date Added: May 24, 2021

Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties, CA

Principal Subject: Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties

This data includes 2018, 2019, 2020 and some partial 2021 death records from Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties. Some of the data is in .csv form and others are in .pdf form. For a full methodology on how this data was compiled, click here: https://www.kqed.org/news/11874753/how-we-analyzed-death-records-to-find-increasing-overdoses

Date Range: January 1, 2018, to April 29, 2021

Format Details: zipped file of .csv and .pdf record-level deaths records, with names redacted

Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office 2020 COVID-19 deaths

Date Updated: April 7, 2021

Date Added: April 7, 2021

Santa Clara County, CA

Principal Subject: Santa Clara County Medical Examiner Mich​elle Jorden

This material includes the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office response to a California Public Records Act request for case records, including COVID-19 deaths, dating January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020. Information sought in the request includes details such as: date of death, race, ethnicity, age, gender, location; cause(s) of death.

Date Range: January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020

Format Details: zipped file of a .csv spreadsheet

City of New Orleans Health Department COVID-19 emails and response

Date Updated: January 30, 2021

Date Added: July 13, 2020

City of New Orleans, LA

Highlighted Documents: New Orleans mobile testing program one-pager Protocol 36 emergency response spreadsheet New Orleans modeling projection, April 5 New Orleans internal health statistics, April 20 Roche testing letter LCMC Health

Principal Subject: Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director, City of New Orleans Health Department

These documents include emails and underlying attachments for the City of New Orleans Health Department, including internal modeling predictions; draft working papers, city policies for COVID-19 response; grant funding requests to outside organizations; and spreadsheets detailing hospital capacity, fatality and other COVID-19 metrics.

Date Range: January 21, 2020, to January 7, 2021

Format Details: .zip of .pdf file with embedded .xlsx, .doc and .ppt attachments (18,345 pages, 1.85 GB, duplicative material)

Port of San Diego, California, COVID-19 emails and response

Date Updated: August 17, 2020

Date Added: August 12, 2020

Santa Clara, San Diego and San Francisco, CA

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 to May 5, 2020

Format Details: .pdf (1,332 pages)

Louisiana Department of Education COVID-19 emails and response

Date Updated: July 13, 2020

Date Added: July 13, 2020

Louisiana Department of Education, LA

Principal Subject: Beth Scioneaux, interim director, Louisiana Department of Education

This material includes emails sent to, from or copied to Beth Scioneaux, interim director, Louisiana Department of Education, regarding statewide response to COVID-19.

Date Range: May 18 to June 26, 2020

Format Details: .pdf (530 pages)

City of Gallup COVID-19 emails and response

Date Updated: July 13, 2020

Date Added: July 13, 2020

Gallup, NM

Principal Subject: Former Gallup Mayor Jackie McKinney and current Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi

These documents include emails sent from, to or copied to former Gallup Mayor Jackie McKinney and/or current Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi regarding local response to COVID-19.

Date Range: April 1 to May 27, 2020

Format Details: .zip of .pst files (219.1 MB)

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