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Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
This executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate COVID-19 treatment development, expand healthcare system capacity through targeted surge assistance to long-term care facilities, and improve access to affordable care by evaluating insurance coverage programs and establishing production targets for therapeutics. It emphasizes supporting rural hospitals, historically underrepresented clinical trial populations, and patients with long-term COVID effects.
Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
This executive order mandates that on-duty or on-site federal employees, contractors, and visitors wear masks and follow CDC public health guidelines in federal buildings and on federal lands. It also establishes the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force to provide ongoing guidance on COVID-19 workplace safety and requires federal agencies to report on their implementation progress.
Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells
This executive order lifts the previous administration's restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, directing the NIH to issue new guidance within 120 days. It revokes the August 9, 2001 presidential statement and Executive Order 13435 that had limited such funding.