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Friday, January 22, 2021
Mask Wearing
The Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing requires “on-duty or on-site Federal employees; on-site Federal contractors; and all persons in Federal buildings or on Federal lands” to follow U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines with respect to mask wearing, social distancing, and other public health measures.
COVID-19 Response
The Executive Order on 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 “creates the position of Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response and Counselor to the President” who reports directly to the president. This position manages all elements of the COVID-19 response, including “coordinating the Federal Government’s efforts to produce, supply, and distribute personal protective equipment, vaccines, te
by Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm
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We are only three days into this new era and the recently inaugurated president s hand is on fucking fire. President Biden has already signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trump s most destructive policies.
In his first week in office, Biden s orders primarily focused on bolstering the federal government s coronavirus response, reversing Trump s ass-backward environmental rollbacks, halting paranoid immigration policies, and attempting to provide a wee bit of economic relief. These executive actions can be pretty dry, so we re hoping to make this a little fun for you.
IV. Record Thine COVID Data
Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
This order is all about data. While it doesn’t go into much detail, it does stress the president’s desire to enhance data collection around the virus presumably infections, contact tracing, and the like. It calls for a “stronger public health infrastructure” to help “prevent, detect, and respond to future biological threats” but does not outline what that means.
It’s possible that under this order the federal government may explore a digital tracking system or even a national database to aid in what it calls “collaboration capabilities.”