{"id":"FED-190","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"The President and the White House Coronavirus Task Force (with CDC)","authority":"Presidential guidance (not an order)","instrument":"The President\u0027s Coronavirus Guidelines for America: 15 Days to Slow the Spread","title":"The President\u0027s Coronavirus Guidelines for America - 15 Days to Slow the Spread","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16 (fifteen days).","end":"2020-04-30 (superseded by the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, Apr. 16, 2020, FED-192)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-04-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["GATH","TELE","TRAV","CLOSE","SCH"],"addressees":["every American; State and local officials; governors of States with community transmission"],"clause":"[image-only PDF; text as read in the prior verified research:] Listen to and follow the directions of your STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES.... Work or engage in schooling FROM HOME whenever possible.... AVOID SOCIAL GATHERINGS in groups of more than 10 people.... Avoid eating or drinking at bars, restaurants, and food courts - USE DRIVE-THRU, PICKUP, OR DELIVERY OPTIONS. AVOID DISCRETIONARY TRAVEL, shopping trips, and social visits.... IN STATES WITH EVIDENCE OF COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.","enforcement":"None (guidance); the template every State stay-at-home and closure order of March 2020 implemented","functions":["context: the federal template for the ten-person gathering limit, the telework instruction, the closure of bars, restaurants and gyms, and the travel restraint that State orders enacted"],"notes":"CONTEXT ONLY, never pleaded as the order (thesis T8 and the Q\u0026A-10 definition both require an order). Its value: the federal government itself, on March 16, 2020, told the governors to close bars, restaurants, food courts and gyms and told the public to avoid travel, shopping and gatherings; the State orders that followed are the orders.","sourceUrl":"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":696265,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FED-A","url":"/library/FED-190","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FED-190","citation":"The President and the White House Coronavirus Task Force (with CDC), The President\u0027s Coronavirus Guidelines for America: 15 Days to Slow the Spread (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. FED-190)","stateName":"","related":["FED-192","FED-191"]}