**Ethics**: The study has been approved by the Ethics Review Board under number 2020-CS-12107.
**Acknowledgements**: If you use one or more waves of this study, please include the following statement in your acknowledgements: "This study was funded by the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, The Digital Communication Methods Lab and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations".
**Citation**: If you use one or more waves of this study, please cite the data in your manuscript as follows:
- Bakker, B.N., van der Wal, A., & Vliegenthart, R. (2020) COVID-19 panel study in the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KWZ7A