In the early months of the COVID pandemic, numerous studies were done on the psychological implications of the pandemic. This paper details two independent replications of studies that were posted in PsyArXiv in March and April of 2020. These data reported in this manuscript were collected during the summer of 2020 and look at two separate phenomena associated with the COVID crisis (looking at conspiracy beliefs and COVID; looking at empathy and contagion control behaviours). The data reported in this manuscript are stored on the Open Science Framework and could allow for an evaluation of evolving nature of the psychological response to the COVID epidemic.