The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Level
- State
- Authority
- G.L. c. 17, s. 2A
- Issued
- 2021-05-28 May 28, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-28, immediately (read as 2021-05-28)
- End
- In effect 'until, in my judgment, improved conditions permit its rescission'; in force throughout 2021 Q3 (PHE Orders No. 2021-1 through 2021-8 issued under it June 14-Sept. 20, 2021) (read as 2021-09-20)
- In force
- May 28, 2021 to Sept. 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- Commissioner of Public Health with the approval of the Public Health Council
- Functions reached
- HC/IC health-care and congregate-care mask and vaccination mandates
- WF home health and nursing-home workforce
- predicate for every Q3 2021 DPH order
- Collection
- Massachusetts MA
Operative words
I hereby declare, pursuant to Section 2A of Chapter 17 of the General Laws, that as of the date indicated below, an emergency exists that is detrimental to the public health in the Commonwealth. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Public Health Council, may rely on this declaration to extend or adopt measures to facilitate COVID-19 testing and vaccination of all populations throughout the Commonwealth, to mandate special measures to protect higher risk populations or to effectuate continued surveillance of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth, and to respond as necessary to outbreaks of the virus as they may arise.
Enforcement
Predicate for DPH orders enforced under G.L. c. 111 and facility licensure regulations (e.g., 105 CMR 153.000)
Notes
Recites that as of May 27, 2021 approximately 35 percent of the population remained unvaccinated and no vaccine was approved for children under 12; 2,736 new clusters identified April 25-May 22, 2021.