The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 20 V.S.A. §§ 8, 9, 11; EO 01-20
- Issued
- 2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-20 upon signing (read as 2020-03-20)
- End
- Set to April 15, 2020; extended to May 15 (VT-014); amended May 4, 2020 to allow phased resumption under Health Department mitigation requirements (VT-018); replaced by VT-025 § 4 (June 15, 2020) to June 15, 2021 (read as 2020-04-15)
- In force
- Mar. 20, 2020 to Apr. 15, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureHealth care orders
- Addressees
- all clinicians in Vermont
- hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, dental practices
- Functions reached
- SX surgery and elective procedures
- PR elective and aerosol-generating dental procedures
- OC outpatient clinics and diagnostics
- CH chairside hygiene
- LB dental laboratories
- SC PPE conservation
- CB patients
- Collection
- Vermont VT
Operative words
hereby order all clinicians in Vermont to expedite postponement of all non-essential adult elective surgery and medical and surgical procedures, including all dental procedures in the safest but most expedient way possible.
Enforcement
20 V.S.A. § 40 (VT-103); professional licensure (Office of Professional Regulation) and VDH oversight
Notes
Factors: PPE supply, ICU beds, ventilators, staffing; VT-014 § 6(B) later classified compliance as an immunized 'emergency management service'.