health_tweets: 63050

The full text of tweets and selected Twitter metadata from the Twitter accounts of state and local public officials, as well as education and health agencies, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We begin with state governors with more data to come. Where possible, please cite Big Local News as collecting and disseminating this information. We ask because it helps us show the impact we can have and that makes it easier to create ongoing support for Big Local News.

This data as json, copyable

rowid id user created_at full_text retweet_count favorite_count State Abbreviation State Health Department Website
63050 63049 1319756254097518592 151175266 2020-10-23T21:43:05+00:00 "550 is above our daily averages for the past several weeks but we remain cautious about giving one day’s total too much weight. That said, we believe this increase is due to continued community transmission from social gatherings, as well as household clusters." 2 4 Oregon OR Oregon Health Authority https://www.oregon.gov/oha/pages/index.aspx