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EO 139942021-01-21Biden

Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats

This executive order directs federal agencies to improve data collection, sharing, and publication of COVID-19-related information to support evidence-based pandemic response and build stronger public health infrastructure for future threats. It mandates senior data leads across multiple departments, requires reviews of public health data systems and federal hiring capabilities for data roles, and tasks OMB with issuing guidance on open data and de-identification.

EO 139962021-01-21Biden

Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats

This executive order establishes a COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to coordinate federal testing efforts and reduce disparities in access, while also creating plans for a U.S. Public Health Job Corps and a sustainable public health workforce to address the pandemic and future biological threats. It directs multiple agencies to facilitate free testing for uninsured individuals, clarify insurance coverage obligations, and provide technical support to state and local health agencies.

EO 139972021-01-21Biden

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.

EO 140002021-01-21Biden

Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers

This executive order directs federal agencies to support safe reopening and continued operation of K-12 schools, early childhood education providers, and higher education institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It mandates evidence-based guidance, data collection on disparate impacts, equitable distribution of COVID-19 supplies, and development of strategies to address learning loss and educational inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.

EO 139872021-01-20Biden

Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security

This executive order establishes a White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator to unify federal pandemic response efforts, including vaccine distribution, testing expansion, PPE production, and school reopening support. It also creates an NSC Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense, assigns the APNSA responsibility for national biodefense preparedness, and mandates a 180-day review of biological threats and biopreparedness policies.

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