COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To ensure that our healthcare system is able to surge capacity and capability to respond to the spread of COVID-19, it is critical that all health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19 are properly distributed to the Nation’s healthcare system and others that need them most at this time.
Accordingly, I find that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators, meet the criteria specified in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)). Under the delegation of authority provided in this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may identify additional specific health and medical resources that meet the criteria of section 101(b).”
-Donald Trump, “Executive Order on Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of Covid-19,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. 18, 2020
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