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This Concurrent Resolution urges the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to publicly report current statistics on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, broken down by individual military installations and specifically identifying data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander military and DoD personnel. This action is intended to help protect both the military community and the local communities surrounding government and military installations, especially given that military personnel and their families interact with the public. The resolution also calls for the DoD to share this information with the Department of Health, which would then make it public, and requests that certified copies of the resolution be sent to various government officials. The context for this resolution includes a previous DoD order in March 2020 that stopped the public release of COVID-19 statistics from installations, despite concerns about the virus spreading to neighboring communities and instances of military personnel violating local gathering restrictions.