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On April 9, the Federal Reserve announced $2.3 trillion in loans to small businesses and local and state governments. [287] [288] [289] On November 19, Mnuchin asked the Federal Reserve to release $455 billion in unspent funding from the CARES Act, [290] following proposals by himself, Meadows, and Trump in the months before.
Until the 1870s, quarantines were under state and local control. In 1879, the federal government established a National Board of Health with national quarantine authority. It contained equal representation from the three government organizations with medical officers: the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Hospital Service. In 1883, the law ...
The 1878 National Quarantine Act was drafted as six sections establishing regulations for contagious or infections diseases, transmissible maritime vessels, transitioning quarantine authority from the States to the federal government, and the development of a national quarantine system. Contagious or infections diseases - 20 Stat. 37 § I
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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
In the United States, authority to quarantine people with infectious diseases is split between the state and federal governments. States (and tribal governments recognised by the federal government) [76] have primary authority to quarantine people within their boundaries. Federal jurisdiction only applies to people moving across state or ...
Software for COVID-19 pandemic mitigation takes many forms. It includes mobile apps for contact tracing and notifications about infection risks, vaccine passports, software for enabling – or improving the effectiveness of – lockdowns and social distancing, Web software for the creation of related information services, and research and development software.
The government launched "GH COVID-19 Tracker App", an Android and IOS app equipped with location tracking technology to provide detailed information about people who have been at the same event, location, country or other defined locations in order to provide accurate information to health authorities overtime to know who to screen and provide ...