Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 85, No. 239 

Friday, December 11, 2020 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13962 of December 8, 2020 

Ensuring Access to United States Government COVID–19 

Vaccines 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Purpose. Through unprecedented collaboration across the United 

States Government, industry, and international partners, the United States 

expects to soon have safe and effective COVID–19 vaccines available for 

the American people. To ensure the health and safety of our citizens, to 

strengthen our economy, and to enhance the security of our Nation, we 

must ensure that Americans have priority access to COVID–19 vaccines 

developed in the United States or procured by the United States Government 

(‘‘United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines’’). 

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to ensure Americans 

have priority access to free, safe, and effective COVID–19 vaccines. After 

ensuring the ability to meet the vaccination needs of the American people, 

it is in the interest of the United States to facilitate international access 

to United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines. 

Sec. 3. American Access to COVID–19 Vaccines. (a) The Secretary of Health 

and Human Services, through Operation Warp Speed and with the support 

of the Secretary of Defense, shall ensure safe and effective COVID–19 vaccines 

are available to the American people, coordinating with public and private 

entities—including State, territorial, and tribal governments, where appropriate—to enable the timely distribution of such vaccines. 

(b) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with 

the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other executive departments 

and agencies (agencies), as appropriate, shall ensure that Americans have 

priority access to United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines, and shall 

ensure that the most vulnerable United States populations have first access 

to such vaccines. 

(c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall ensure that a sufficient supply of COVID–19 vaccine doses is available for all Americans 

who choose to be vaccinated in order to safeguard America from COVID– 

19. 

Sec. 4. International Access to United States Government COVID–19 Vaccines. After determining that there exists a sufficient supply of COVID– 

19 vaccine doses for all Americans who choose to be vaccinated, as required 

by section 3(b) of this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 

and the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator of the 

United States Agency for International Development, the Chief Executive 

Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, 

the Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 

and the heads of other agencies, shall facilitate international access to United 

States Government COVID–19 Vaccines for allies, partners, and others, as 

appropriate and consistent with applicable law. 

Sec. 5. Coordination of International Access to United States Government 

COVID–19 Vaccines. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Assistant 

to the President for National Security Affairs shall coordinate development 

of an interagency strategy for the implementation of section 4 of this order. 


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Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and 

subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

December 8, 2020. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27455 

Filed 12–10–20; 8:45 am] 

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