03/23/2020
The president issued Exec. Order 13909, Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19, on March 18, 2020; the order finds that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19 meet the criteria specified in §101(b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 and delegates authority to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to determine nationwide priorities and allocation of all health and medical resources for responding to the spread of COVID-19 within the United States.