/florida-department-of-health-covid-19-report-archive

An archival repository of all the reports published to date by the Florida Department of Health on COVID-19

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Florida Department of Health COVID-19 report archive

An archival repository of all the reports published to date by the Florida Department of Health on COVID-19

Source

The PDF reports stored in the repository were originally published on the Florida COVID-19 homepage but the Florida Department of Health does not maintain an all-time public archive so it can be difficult for journalists and researchers to find them in order to analyze Florida's COVID-19 response.

Usage

Since the state reports include the entire case line data listing, the file has become enormous (100 MB+) over time. This means this repository requires the Git LFS (large file storage) extension to be installed if you're going to clone the repository to your local machine and use git clone to download all the files at once. I would recommend using GitHub's zip download feature but it's not yet compatible with Git LFS so it won't download any of PDF files for you.

You can learn about and install Git LFS here.

Download All Files from FDOH

This will automatically create the same directory structure as the repo and fill it with any file that doesn't exist locally yet. It's pretty neat.

bundle install
ruby download_all.rb

Then go drink some good coffee or tea, it'll be a while. :-)

Some files are extremely slow to download and may result in a timeout, file an issue if that's the case and I'll check them out.