Testing by ethnicity

Dear Ms. Hom,
We are in receipt of your Public Records Act Request of January 13, 2021. Because the response date fell on a Saturday, the 10 day period was extended to today, January 25th. I am in the process of gathering records for you and have received some data today that I need to go through to ensure they do not contain any protected information. I will endeavor to get them to you today or tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.

Rebecca M. Archer
Lead Deputy County Counsel
400 County Center-6th Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063

Dir: (650) 363-4686
Main: (650) 363-4250

On Jan. 13, 2021:
Subject: California Public Records Act Request: Testing by ethnicity

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all data since March 1, 2020 to present, that shows the ethnicity of each person who tested for Covid-19 in both private healthcare and public health testing sites in San Mateo County. I understand that San Mateo County already tracks this information given the fact that they are able to present case and death data by ethnicity, as shown here: https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/county-data-dashboard<https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/county-data-dashboard> . Laboratory testing data is also shown and tracked here" https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/lab-testing-data<https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/lab-testing-data> . Additionally, the state of California requires that County Health Departments track this information since Sept. 2020, which is stated on the state website here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CaliforniaHealthEquityMetric.aspx<https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CaliforniaHealthEquityMetric.aspx> .

In addition, I would like all datasets that show how many tests and vaccines were used by/given to healthcare providers and how many tests and vaccines were used by/given to San Mateo County Department of Public Health from March 1, 2020 to present. I understand that the Health Department receives records of this information through partnerships with the healthcare facilities in its county.

I would like this information in a downloadable format of a CV, Excel or spreadsheet file if possible. This should already be likely given the nature of other Health Department data which uses this spreadsheet format.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Annika Hom

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Dear Ms. Hom,
To update you on the status of your request, we are in the process of pulling the data, but will need to redact protected health information from the vaccination statistics. I anticipate being able to do that within two weeks once I receive the data from Health. With respect to the testing information, I anticipate getting that from communicable disease within the week. They have been heavily impacted by the surge and have not had the resources to extract data. In the meantime, please feel free to access our dashboard and online vaccination information that may have much of the information you seek.
https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/county-data-dashboard
https://www.smchealth.org/covidvaccine
https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/vaccination-totals-locations-data
https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/vaccination-demographic-data
https://www.smchealth.org/post/want-more-information

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Rebecca

Dear Ms. Hom,
Attached are the testing data from March 2020 to the present. We are working on redacting medical privacy information for the vaccine data and will get back to you next week with an estimate of when we will be able to get it to you.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Rebecca M. Archer
Lead Deputy County Counsel
400 County Center-6th Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063

Dir: (650) 363-4686
Main: (650) 363-4250

Dear Ms. Hom,
Since receiving your request, the County has updated their dashboards to include vaccination data. If, after reviewing the data on the dashboard, there is further data that you need that is not otherwise confidential information, please do not hesitate to reach out to me.

https://www.smchealth.org/covidvaccine
https://www.smchealth.org/coronavirus-health-data
https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/vaccination-totals-locations-data
https://www.smchealth.org/data-dashboard/vaccination-demographic-data

Rebecca M. Archer
Lead Deputy County Counsel
400 County Center-6th Floor
Redwood City, CA 94063

Dir: (650) 363-4686
Main: (650) 363-4250