Health Care Records

The Health Care drawer holds four records, the smallest of the seven and 3 per cent of everything held in a drawer. They run from June 2017 to August 2020. Two of them carry a 2020 filing date.

Public-health measures and the services built around them. The drawers are subject classes rather than departments, so a record appears once, in the drawer it was reported under. Each keeps the address it was published at, with its filing date printed on it.

How the drawer fills

The four records sit across four calendar months inside a span of 39, so the drawer was worked in bursts rather than kept up month by month. That is 1 record for each month the drawer was open. The longest quiet stretch runs 26 months, between March 2018 and June 2020. The earliest filing is US Senate Republicans to release healthcare bill Thursday; the latest is Alyssa Milano losing her hair in coronavirus battle.

The archive as a whole covers 43 months. This drawer was open in 25 per cent of the months anything was filed at all, and it is one of the drawers the archive opens with. Sparse drawers are kept as they were found rather than merged into fuller ones: the address a record was published at is the thing worth preserving, and folding a drawer away would break the path that leads to it.

Filed alongside

In the same months that this drawer was open, the desk was also filing into Worldwide (12), Science (3) and Sci-Tech (3). A record is filed once, in the drawer it was reported under, so a subject that straddles two classes sits in one of them and is reachable from the full index either way.

• Economy
• Worldwide
• Culture
• Sport
• Sci-Tech
• Science
• Health Care

The other drawers are above. The full index — all 127 catalogued records, with a filter that reads titles, drawers and dates at once — is on the archive index.