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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. MET-KC-074	Clay County Public Health Center Annual Report 2020 ('In the year of 2020 COVID-19' timeline of public health emergency orders)Official chronology of the Clay County public health emergency orders of 2020	Clay County Public Health Center (Director Gary Zaborac) (report); orders signed by the Director under a county state of emergency declared by Presiding Commissioner Jerry Nolte	Clay County, Missouri (Clay County Public Health Center jurisdiction, outside Kansas City)County	Mar. 1, 2021		Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careCurfew and hours	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-SLC-019	Public Health Order for junior high and middle schools (Sept. 23, 2021), as announced on the Department's coronavirus pageSummit County Health Department coronavirus page (capture of Sept. 26, 2021): '(9/23/21) Summit County Issues Public Health Order for Junior…	Summit County Health Department (page); Health Officer Philip Bondurant (order announced)	Summit County, UtahCounty	Sept. 23, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. NE-070	Douglas County Directed Health Measure of March 18, 2020 (and salon closure order of March 24, 2020)Douglas County Health Department directed health measures, March 2020	Douglas County Health Department, Health Director Adi Pour, Ph.D.	Douglas County (Omaha)County	Mar. 18, 2020	2020 Q2	Business closureGathering cap	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MT-051	Frequently Asked Questions: Yellowstone County Health Officer Order, November 9, 2020Frequently Asked Questions - Yellowstone County Health Officer Order - November 9, 2020	RiverStone Health (Yellowstone County health department), explaining the Health Officer Order of Nov. 9, 2020	Yellowstone County, MontanaCounty	Nov. 9, 2020	2020 Q4	Capacity limitGathering capCurfew and hours	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-BNA-077	Shelby County Health Department directive requiring universal indoor masking in schools and daycares (August 2021; numbered Health Directive No. 24 in the Department's sequence)School and daycare universal indoor masking order (August 2021)	Shelby County Health Department	Shelby County, TennesseeCounty		2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-BNA-078	Shelby County Health Order No. 26Health Order No. 26 (September-October 2021: indoor mask requirements in businesses and schools continued)	Shelby County Health Department	Shelby County, TennesseeCounty		2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-RIV-058	Order of the Public Health Officer Cancelling All Gatherings of More Than 10 Persons (March 13, 2020) and Order of the County Public Health Officer of March 16, 2020Gatherings of more than 10 persons cancelled (March 13, 2020)	Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser	Riverside County, CaliforniaCounty	Mar. 13, 2020	2020 Q2	Gathering capEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MT-084	Order of Health Officer of Nov. 20, 2020 (mirroring the Governor's Nov. 17 Directive: gatherings 25 without distancing / 50 with distancing; 50 percent capacity; 10 p.m. closing; masks and distancing required of all businesses), continued Jan. 6, 2021 and loosened effective 5:00 a.m. Jan. 22, 2021 (75 percent capacity; 12:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. closure; events of 250 indoor / 500 outdoor with approved plans; gathering caps and masks retained) until the case rate is at or below 25 per 100,000 for four consecutive weeksCascade City-County Health Officer Order of November 20, 2020, as continued and amended	Trisha Gardner, Public Health Officer, Cascade City-County Health Department; Board of Health (Jan. 20, 2021 amendments)	Cascade County, MontanaCounty	Nov. 20, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementCurfew and hoursWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MT-085	County COVID-19 emergency declaration of March 13, 2020 (rescinded July 2021) and county public health rules (masks; gathering limits) tightened January 2021 and no longer enforced after HB 257 (May 2021)Lewis and Clark County COVID-19 emergency declaration and public health rules	Lewis and Clark County Commissioners; Lewis and Clark City-County Board of Health and Health Officer	Lewis and Clark County (Helena), MontanaCounty	Mar. 13, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Emergency declarationGathering capFace-covering requirement	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-PHL-088	Board of Health order requiring all public and private K-12 schools in Montgomery County to provide virtual-only instruction and suspending extracurricular activities and sportsMontgomery County Board of Health order: all K-12 schools virtual, Nov. 23 - Dec. 6, 2020	Montgomery County Board of Health (Chair Michael Laign), unanimous vote of Nov. 13, 2020	Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Board of Health)County	Nov. 13, 2020	2020 Q4	Gathering capSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. NM-076	Public Health Emergency Order of February 24, 2021 (Turquoise level added) and its March 2021 reissuePublic Health Emergency Order... Amending Prior Public Health Emergency Orders to Impose County-by-County Restrictions Due to COVID-19	Secretary of Health Tracie C. Collins, M.D.	New MexicoState	Feb. 24, 2021	2021 Q12021 Q2	Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-01-104	Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Mar. 19, 2020, amended Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 2020; Safer at Home Apr. 28, 2020)State Health Officer Order (postponing dental, medical and surgical procedures; barring hospital and nursing home visitation)	State Health Officer Scott Harris (Alabama Department of Public Health)	AlabamaState	Mar. 27, 2020	2020 Q2	Gathering capHealth care orders	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. SEC-15-090	TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation)TEA SY 2020-21 Public Health Planning Guidance and 2021-22 updates	Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath)	TexasSector regulator	July 7, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-070	Preliminary Guidance for Phased Reopening of Pre-K to 12 Schools (June 3, 2020) requiring a board-approved Health and Safety Plan before any school entity reopensRequirement that every school entity adopt and post a Health and Safety Plan approved by its governing body, consistent with the Secretary…	Pennsylvania Department of Education (Secretary Pedro A. Rivera; Acting Secretary Noe Ortega)	Pennsylvania Department of Education (Secretary of Education); State levelState	June 3, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Schools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-KS-001	Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021)AN ACT concerning public health; removing the authorization for a county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public…	Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115)	KansasState	July 1, 2025	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyGathering capQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. ECO-B-091	Public Health Emergency Order of August 17, 2021 (masks): face masks required in all indoor public settings, including schools, regardless of vaccination statusPublic Health Order Requiring Face Masks in Indoor Public Settings (Aug. 17, 2021)	Acting Secretary of Health David R. Scrase, M.D., New Mexico Department of Health	New MexicoState	Aug. 17, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child care	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. NM-074	Public Health Emergency Order to Limit Mass Gatherings Due to COVID-19 (Mar. 12, 2020)Public Health Emergency Order to Limit Mass Gatherings Due to COVID-19	Secretary of Health Kathyleen M. Kunkel	New MexicoState	Mar. 12, 2020		Gathering cap	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. CO-089	Pitkin County Public Health Order (spring 2020; document captured Apr. 13, 2020)Pitkin County Public Health Order	Pitkin County Public Health Director / Board of Health	Pitkin County, Colorado (Aspen, Snowmass Village, Basalt)County		2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantine	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-AUS-029	Notice of Rules: Health Authority Rules of December 15, 2020Health Authority Rules of December 15, 2020 (face coverings; site rules; continuing through April 15, 2021)	Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Dr. Mark Escott)	City of Austin, TexasCity	Dec. 15, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Gathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-DCM-037	Health Officer Directive and Order on Large GatheringsFinal Health Officer Order - July 31 - Large Gatherings	Ernest L. Carter, M.D., Ph.D., Health Officer, as designee of the Secretary of Health	Prince George's County, MarylandCounty	July 31, 2020	2020 Q3	Gathering capFace-covering requirement	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-PHL-090	Chester County instruments: COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration (March 2020); intergovernmental agreement to serve Delaware County (approved Mar. 18, 2020; ended July 31, 2021); Health Department school guidance (Aug. 4, 2020) and 2021-22 close-contact, symptomatic and antigen-testing instructions (Aug. 2021); 'Simple Ask: Wear a Mask' campaign (2020); First Amended Declaration of Judicial Emergency of the Court of Common Pleas (2020)Chester County COVID-19 instruments (by category)	Chester County Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department (Jeanne Casner, Director, 2020; Jeanne Franklin, Public Health Director, 2021); President Judge of the 15th Judicial District	Chester County, Pennsylvania (Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department; Court of Common Pleas, 15th Judicial District)County		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Emergency declarationSchools and child careCourts and public officesQuarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-RIV-002	Order of the Public Health Officer Cancelling All Events With Attendance Above 250 Individuals (announced by news release of March 12, 2020)Riverside County public health officer orders large events canceled	Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser	Riverside County, CaliforniaCounty	Mar. 12, 2020	2020 Q2	Gathering capEvents and venues	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MT-081	Board of Health revision of COVID-19 mitigation requirements (Feb. 18, 2021): mask mandate retained; event capacities raised from 25 to 50 indoor and 100 outdoor; general business capacity limits removed except where needed for distancing; fitness facilities, pools, worship, personal care, restaurants and bars permitted with modificationsMissoula City-County Board of Health revision of Feb. 18, 2021	Missoula City-County Board of Health; Ellen Leahy, Health Officer	Missoula County, MontanaCounty	Feb. 18, 2021	2021 Q12021 Q2	Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirement	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. NE-089	Lincoln-Lancaster County Directed Health Measure of August 2021 (indoor face coverings)Lancaster County indoor mask directed health measure, Aug. 26 - Dec. 23, 2021	Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Health Director Pat Lopez, with Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird	City of Lincoln and Lancaster CountyCounty	Aug. 24, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. AL-092	Orders of the Mobile County Health Officer concerning COVID-19 mitigation measures (March 2020)Mobile County health-officer orders superseded by the statewide orders	Mobile County Health Officer (Mobile County Health Department)	Mobile County, AlabamaCounty		2020 Q2	Business closureGathering cap	Confirmed from a secondary source

Clay County Public Health Center (Director Gary Zaborac) (report); orders signed by the Director under a county state of emergency declared by Presiding Commissioner Jerry Nolte, Clay County Public Health Center Annual Report 2020 ('In the year of 2020 COVID-19' timeline of public health emergency orders) (Mar. 1, 2021) (Ex. MET-KC-074)
Summit County Health Department (page); Health Officer Philip Bondurant (order announced), Public Health Order for junior high and middle schools (Sept. 23, 2021), as announced on the Department's coronavirus page (Ex. MET-SLC-019)
Douglas County Health Department, Health Director Adi Pour, Ph.D, Douglas County Directed Health Measure of March 18, 2020 (and salon closure order of March 24, 2020) (Mar. 18, 2020) (Ex. NE-070)
RiverStone Health (Yellowstone County health department), explaining the Health Officer Order of Nov. 9, 2020, Frequently Asked Questions: Yellowstone County Health Officer Order, November 9, 2020 (Nov. 9, 2020) (Ex. MT-051)
Shelby County Health Department, Shelby County Health Department directive requiring universal indoor masking in schools and daycares (August 2021; numbered Health Directive No. 24 in the Department's sequence) (Ex. MET-BNA-077)
Shelby County Health Department, Shelby County Health Order No. 26 (Ex. MET-BNA-078)
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Order of the Public Health Officer Cancelling All Gatherings of More Than 10 Persons (March 13, 2020) and Order of the County Public Health Officer of March 16, 2020 (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-058)
Trisha Gardner, Public Health Officer, Cascade City-County Health Department; Board of Health (Jan. 20, 2021 amendments), Order of Health Officer of Nov. 20, 2020 (mirroring the Governor's Nov. 17 Directive: gatherings 25 without distancing / 50 with distancing; 50 percent capacity; 10 p.m. closing; masks and distancing required of all businesses), continued Jan. 6, 2021 and loosened effective 5:00 a.m. Jan. 22, 2021 (75 percent capacity; 12:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. closure; events of 250 indoor / 500 outdoor with approved plans; gathering caps and masks retained) until the case rate is at or below 25 per 100,000 for four consecutive weeks (Ex. MT-084)
Lewis and Clark County Commissioners; Lewis and Clark City-County Board of Health and Health Officer, County COVID-19 emergency declaration of March 13, 2020 (rescinded July 2021) and county public health rules (masks; gathering limits) tightened January 2021 and no longer enforced after HB 257 (May 2021) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. MT-085)
Montgomery County Board of Health (Chair Michael Laign), unanimous vote of Nov. 13, 2020, Board of Health order requiring all public and private K-12 schools in Montgomery County to provide virtual-only instruction and suspending extracurricular activities and sports (Nov. 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-PHL-088)
Secretary of Health Tracie C. Collins, M.D, Public Health Emergency Order of February 24, 2021 (Turquoise level added) and its March 2021 reissue (Feb. 24, 2021) (Ex. NM-076)
State Health Officer Scott Harris (Alabama Department of Public Health), Order of the State Health Officer Suspending Certain Public Gatherings Due to Risk of Infection by COVID-19 (Mar. 19, 2020, amended Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 2020; Safer at Home Apr. 28, 2020) (Mar. 27, 2020) (Ex. SEC-01-104)
Texas Education Agency (Commissioner Mike Morath), TEA Public Health Planning Guidance for the 2020-21 school year (July 7, 2020; on-campus instruction with masks required; parental choice of remote; attendance-funding flexibility of July 14-17, 2020 for up to eight weeks of remote instruction), and the Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, 2021 public health guidance (mask provision not enforced during the GA-38 litigation) (Ex. SEC-15-090)
Pennsylvania Department of Education (Secretary Pedro A. Rivera; Acting Secretary Noe Ortega), Preliminary Guidance for Phased Reopening of Pre-K to 12 Schools (June 3, 2020) requiring a board-approved Health and Safety Plan before any school entity reopens (Ex. AGY-ST-EDUCATION-HIGHER-ED-070)
Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115), Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-001)
Acting Secretary of Health David R. Scrase, M.D., New Mexico Department of Health, Public Health Emergency Order of August 17, 2021 (masks): face masks required in all indoor public settings, including schools, regardless of vaccination status (Aug. 17, 2021) (Ex. ECO-B-091)
Secretary of Health Kathyleen M. Kunkel, Public Health Emergency Order to Limit Mass Gatherings Due to COVID-19 (Mar. 12, 2020) (Ex. NM-074)
Pitkin County Public Health Director / Board of Health, Pitkin County Public Health Order (spring 2020; document captured Apr. 13, 2020) (Ex. CO-089)
Austin-Travis County Health Authority (Dr. Mark Escott), Notice of Rules: Health Authority Rules of December 15, 2020 (Dec. 15, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-029)
Ernest L. Carter, M.D., Ph.D., Health Officer, as designee of the Secretary of Health, Health Officer Directive and Order on Large Gatherings (July 31, 2020) (Ex. MET-DCM-037)
Chester County Board of Commissioners; Chester County Health Department (Jeanne Casner, Director, 2020; Jeanne Franklin, Public Health Director, 2021); President Judge of the 15th Judicial District, Chester County instruments: COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration (March 2020); intergovernmental agreement to serve Delaware County (approved Mar. 18, 2020; ended July 31, 2021); Health Department school guidance (Aug. 4, 2020) and 2021-22 close-contact, symptomatic and antigen-testing instructions (Aug. 2021); 'Simple Ask: Wear a Mask' campaign (2020); First Amended Declaration of Judicial Emergency of the Court of Common Pleas (2020) (Ex. MET-PHL-090)
Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Order of the Public Health Officer Cancelling All Events With Attendance Above 250 Individuals (announced by news release of March 12, 2020) (Mar. 12, 2020) (Ex. MET-RIV-002)
Missoula City-County Board of Health; Ellen Leahy, Health Officer, Board of Health revision of COVID-19 mitigation requirements (Feb. 18, 2021): mask mandate retained; event capacities raised from 25 to 50 indoor and 100 outdoor; general business capacity limits removed except where needed for distancing; fitness facilities, pools, worship, personal care, restaurants and bars permitted with modifications (Ex. MT-081)
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Health Director Pat Lopez, with Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, Lincoln-Lancaster County Directed Health Measure of August 2021 (indoor face coverings) (Aug. 24, 2021) (Ex. NE-089)
Mobile County Health Officer (Mobile County Health Department), Orders of the Mobile County Health Officer concerning COVID-19 mitigation measures (March 2020) (Ex. AL-092)

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