The Metros

Forty metropolitan areas, each with its own file of the county, city, health-officer, court and transit orders that ran alongside the State's, and often ahead of it. Pick a metro for its six quarters, its sector chronology, its calendar of instruments and its downloads.

40metro filesthe forty metropolitan areas

2,751instruments in the metro filescounty judges, mayors, health officers, courts and transit authorities

2,601exhibit files heldopened from each record page or downloaded as a ZIP

2,291read from the primary source460 more confirmed from a secondary source

Counts are the instruments The COVID Project has retrieved and indexed in each metro's own file, not a count of every local order that existed.

Metro by metro

The forty files

Every county-level instrument in the Library →

Metro	Code	States	Instruments	Files held	First closure or stay-at-home	In force 2021 Q3	Links
Atlanta	ATL	GA	53	53	Mar. 20, 2020 Ex. MET-ATL-049	10	The file · Library
Austin	AUS	TX	83	83	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-AUS-001	25	The file · Library
Baltimore	BAL	MD	82	81	Mar. 15, 2020 Ex. MET-BAL-080	5	The file · Library
Boston	BOS	MA	83	83	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-BOS-004	21	The file · Library
Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham	CLT	NC	55	55	Mar. 13, 2020 Ex. MET-CLT-008	26	The file · Library
Chicago	CHI	IL	61	61	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-CHI-043	16	The file · Library
Cincinnati	CIN	OH, KY	52	52	Mar. 23, 2020 Ex. MET-CIN-040	6	The file · Library
Cleveland	CLE	OH	60	57	Apr. 15, 2020 Ex. MET-CLE-039	19	The file · Library
Columbus	CMH	OH	55	55	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-CMH-007	20	The file · Library
Dallas-Fort Worth	DFW	TX	98	93	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-DFW-003	17	The file · Library
Denver	DEN	CO	114	100	Mar. 13, 2020 Ex. MET-DEN-001	26	The file · Library
Detroit	DET	MI	58	52	Mar. 20, 2020 Ex. MET-DET-019	9	The file · Library
Honolulu and the Hawaiian counties	HNL	HI	94	90	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-HNL-066	23	The file · Library
Houston	HOU	TX	78	76	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-HOU-002	17	The file · Library
Indianapolis	IND	IN	71	71	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-IND-001	10	The file · Library
Kansas City	KC	MO, KS	80	59	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-KC-026	19	The file · Library
Las Vegas and Reno	LAS	NV	39	39	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-LAS-023	15	The file · Library
Los Angeles	LA	CA	79	77	Mar. 15, 2020 Ex. MET-LA-027	31	The file · Library
Louisville and Lexington	SDF	KY	49	42	Mar. 14, 2020 Ex. MET-SDF-026	14	The file · Library
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach	MIA	FL	84	84	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-MIA-001	10	The file · Library
Milwaukee and Madison	MKE	WI	73	70	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-MKE-053	5	The file · Library
Minneapolis-St. Paul	MSP	MN	64	64	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-MSP-002	25	The file · Library
Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville	BNA	TN	76	65	Mar. 20, 2020 Ex. MET-BNA-001	10	The file · Library
New Orleans and Baton Rouge	MSY	LA	80	80	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-MSY-002	19	The file · Library
New York City	NYC	NY	59	59	Mar. 13, 2020 Ex. MET-NYC-053	21	The file · Library
Orlando	ORL	FL	60	53	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-ORL-037	6	The file · Library
Philadelphia	PHL	PA, NJ	80	72	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-PHL-002	30	The file · Library
Phoenix and Tucson	PHX	AZ	43	43	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-PHX-036	16	The file · Library
Pittsburgh	PIT	PA	57	57	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-PIT-050	19	The file · Library
Portland	PDX	OR, WA	56	56	Mar. 13, 2020 Ex. MET-PDX-003	11	The file · Library
Riverside-San Bernardino	RIV	CA	69	53	Mar. 18, 2020 Ex. MET-RIV-020	14	The file · Library
Sacramento	SAC	CA	61	61	Mar. 19, 2020 Ex. MET-SAC-001	10	The file · Library
Salt Lake City	SLC	UT	65	62	Mar. 12, 2020 Ex. MET-SLC-001	18	The file · Library
San Antonio	SAT	TX	76	76	Mar. 18, 2020 Ex. MET-SAT-003	18	The file · Library
San Diego	SAN	CA	46	44	Mar. 13, 2020 Ex. MET-SAN-002	11	The file · Library
San Francisco Bay Area	SFO	CA	47	47	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-SFO-001	11	The file · Library
Seattle	SEA	WA	54	50	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-SEA-008	22	The file · Library
St. Louis	STL	MO, IL	106	100	Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-STL-051	21	The file · Library
Tampa Bay	TPA	FL	77	70	Mar. 19, 2020 Ex. MET-TPA-002	13	The file · Library
Washington suburbs	DCM	MD, VA	74	56	Mar. 16, 2020 Ex. MET-DCM-092	13	The file · Library

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