Documenting America's Path to Recovery

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Ballotpedia’s coverage of COVID-19 includes how federal, state, and local governments are responding, and how those responses are influencing election rules and operations, political campaigns, the economy, schools, and more. We document the plans for recovery, including plans for the distribution of vaccines, put forth by states, localities, and others in a way that allows citizens, policymakers, influencers, pundits, and the nation's reporters to engage in fruitful comparisons moving forward. We will curate the ongoing debates, as well as the political impact of the conversations.

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State vaccine policies

These pages explain the decision-making processes related to vaccine distribution, including sources of authority and which decision-makers will determine vaccine allocation. These pages also track the states requiring healthcare workers and state employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

School COVID-19 policies

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, every state closed public schools for at least some period of time. As students returned to school for the 2021-2022 school year, states set a variety of policies on education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including how schools should open to in-person instruction and whether students and staff would be required to wear masks.

School responses by state

Click your state in the map below to read more about its policies for the 2021-2022 school year.

Mask requirements

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, some states introduced requirements for individuals to wear face coverings when in public. This page compiles those restrictions introduced at a state level.

Federal government responses

These pages catalogue federal policy changes or programs made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, including significant legislation, executive actions, and department policies.

Travel restrictions

This article tracks executive orders that governors and state agencies have issued restricting interstate travel or placing requirements on interstate travelers in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This page also includes recommendations or advisories issued by governors or state agencies related to interstate travel.

To read about state-specific restrictions, select a state below.

Elections

These pages look at changes made to election administration and procedures, election dates, as well as recalls and ballot measures related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Economy and society

These articles go beyond government policy responses to provide context for understanding how the pandemic has affected both the economy and society. Included in these articles is a look back at the 1918 pandemic.

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, states closed courthouses, limited travel, and placed restrictions on schools, businesses, and public gatherings. The nature and scope of these restrictions varied from state to state. As the pandemic progressed, policymakers, public health professionals, and other stakeholders made plans for easing or removing those restrictions and resuming government, business, and social activities.

State policies

These articles look how state governments responded to the coronavirus pandemic.


Coronavirus responses by state

https://ballotpedia.org/Government_responses_to_and_political_effects_of_the_coronavirus_pandemic,_2020_(STATE)

Click a state on the list below to see the coronavirus responses in that state.

Arguments about government responses

This page catalogues the main arguments for and against different policies responses as articulated by public officials, journalists, think tanks, economists, scientists, and other stakeholders.


Background on Documenting America's Path to Recovery

Last updated: March 22, 2022

Here are eight things about America's path to recovery that guided our editorial decisions.

  1. Variations would exist between states in how they responded to the pandemic. There would be considerably more variation from one state to the next than there typically is in other policy areas.
  2. There would be significant variations between cities and other local political jurisdictions like counties and school districts. Some local political jurisdictions would be at odds with the state within which they are located.
  3. People (pundits, journalists, analysts, and voters) would judge the government by the actions it did or did not take on the path to recovery. By "the government" we meant all three levels of government—federal, state, and local—and all three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial.
  4. Political partisans would seek to elevate and magnify what they said were the failures of the other party/political persuasion and elevate and magnify what they said were the successes of their party/political persuasion.
  5. Regular people and voters would look for trustworthy and reliable information to inform their judgments. This would manifest in daily life with conversations between neighbors, posts on Facebook, and dinner table talks among families.
  6. The decision-makers involved in responding to the pandemic would have limited information at their disposal. The possibility existed of a peculiar mix: An information void combined with information overload.
  7. The plans and arguments would be dynamic. Understanding them would require organizing the plans into a coherent and correct conceptual framework.
  8. How the recovery unfolded would be a major factor in future election cycles.

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