There’s probably not a brief way to do it, but what’s the past year been like for the Texas Department of Information Resources as it’s helped the…

States initially struggled last year to report out seemingly basic information, such as turnaround times for testing and whether patients were interviewed for contract tracing. Nearly a…

There have been several high-profile efforts to create nationwide COVID-19 data banks, but the United States’ data-collection efforts remain scattershot. One major gap is enough demographic data…

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last December asked states to sign agreements that they would share personal information in some of their COVID-19 registries,…

New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report last month finding more than 3,800 additional nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than reported by the state’s…

While some foreign governments have been lauded for how they’ve communicated about the pandemic —  such as Finland, which built upon a 2014 anti-disinformation initiative —  politics…

What began as the simple firing of a state employee who “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination” has spiraled into a personal war between Gov. Ron DeSantis…

Officials in Texas, Virginia and Vermont admitted last spring they’d been combining the figures for COVID-19 infection tests and COVID-19 antibody tests, leading to statistics that misled…

In many cases, the pandemic accelerated the modernization of local governments, pushing them to transition traditional services into automated digital transactions. In Suffolk County, New York, Chief…

The need for resources like food banks, child care centers and job placement offices shot up during the pandemic, but actually getting to those places became more…