Every record names its source and, where the file was retrieved, holds the file. These are the kinds of places the instruments came from.
The Federal Register and the agencies' own sites
Presidential proclamations and executive orders, and the rules, orders and directives of the federal agencies (the CDC, OSHA, TSA, CMS, HHS, FEMA, DHS and others), as published in the Federal Register or on the agency's own site.
State registers and governors' sites
Executive orders, emergency proclamations and public-health orders from each governor's office and health department, the State's administrative register, and the statutes and rules its legislature and agencies published.
County and city codes and order archives
Local emergency orders and health-officer orders from county and city sites, the codified local ordinances, and the public-meeting records that adopted or extended them.
Court administrative orders
The general and administrative orders of the federal and State courts that closed courthouses, suspended jury trials, tolled deadlines and rescheduled proceedings, as posted on the courts' own sites.
Licensing boards and sector regulators
The orders, emergency rules and directives of State licensing boards, alcohol and gaming regulators, motor-vehicle offices, insurance and financial regulators, and the sector agencies that govern each of twenty-seven industries.
The Internet Archive
Where a live page had been taken down or changed, the Wayback Machine's capture nearest the instrument's date. A record that rests on a capture carries the snapshot address, and the record page offers it as the archived copy.
Common Crawl
A second public web archive, used to locate pages that had disappeared from the live web. A document found there was kept only when its text carried the instrument's own words, and the record still names the issuing authority as its source.
Trade organizers' sites
The published notices of the organizers of trade shows, conventions, fairs, tournaments and seasons: the cancellation or postponement notice, its date, and the reason the organizer gave, in the organizer's own words.
The Internal Revenue Bulletin and the statute
Notice 2021-20 and the related notices as published in the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and the statute as enacted: the CARES Act, the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The court dockets
The public filings and hearing transcripts of the federal cases in which the United States described the governmental-orders test, taken from the courts' dockets and quoted with the docket entry and page pinned.
Every record shows its source
A record page gives the exhibit file where The COVID Project holds it, the source address on the issuing authority's site and, where one was recorded, the archived copy. Only instruments graded Primary source read or Confirmed from a secondary source are shown; an instrument the record could not verify is never named. Foreign governments' orders are held as facts and circumstances only. If a source link has moved, tell us with the exhibit identifier.