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Patient Care Records request
What is going to be immensely helpful is access to the de-identified PCR records of as many counties as possible going back 5 years if possible. The year of birth and sex of the person is critically important. Everything else can be anonymized.
The goal is to spot safety signals as the vaccines were rolled out to younger and younger people in 2021. 2020 is important as a COVID comparator.
If this data can be obtained as excel spreadsheet, that makes it ideal. The requested information is HIPAA compliant since there is no PII that could be tied back to a specific individual.
We should be able to obtain this legally under FOIA request, but I don’t know the process.