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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-SAC-072	Yolo County homepage as captured Sept. 1, 2021: notice of the new Face Covering Health Order and of the amended Local Quarantine Health OrderYolo County homepage, Sept. 1, 2021 (new FACE COVERING HEALTH ORDER; Local Quarantine Health Order Amended)	Yolo County (homepage)	Yolo County, CaliforniaCounty	Sept. 1, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementQuarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089	AFL 20-53.6, COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Recommendations for Testing of Health Care Personnel and Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities (revision of Dec. 27, 2021; series begun May 2020)SNF testing regime (series from May 2020): staff and resident testing under the mitigation plan; the Dec. 27, 2021 revision adds booster…	CDPH, Center for Health Care Quality	California - Department of Public Health, Center for Health Care QualityState	Dec. 27, 2021		Context (guidance or announcement)Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolation	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. ECO-B-058	MDH Order of March 27, 2020, Designation of Health Officers (Quarantine)Order designating local health officers to issue isolation and quarantine directives during the COVID-19 catastrophic health emergency	Maryland Department of Health (Secretary Robert R. Neall)	MarylandState	Mar. 27, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Quarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008	Washington State Legislature bill summary, SB 5115 (2021-22), Establishing health emergency labor standardsESSB 5115, Health Emergency Labor Standards Act: occupational-disease presumption for frontline employees during a public health emergency…	Washington State Legislature; signed by Governor Inslee May 11, 2021	Washington; Legislature (Health Emergency Labor Standards Act, administered by the Department of Labor and Industries)State	May 11, 2021	2021 Q22021 Q3	Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationOther	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-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. 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. 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. MET-SAT-001	Public Health Emergency Declaration No. 1 and application for temporary restraining order (City release of March 2, 2020)City of San Antonio issues Public Health Emergency Declaration and sought temporary restraining order to keep quarantine in effect for…	Mayor Ron Nirenberg (City news release describing Public Health Emergency Declaration No. 1)	City of San Antonio, TexasCity	Mar. 2, 2020		Emergency declarationQuarantine and isolation	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. 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
Ex. ECO-B-086	CDPH, COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School Year (July 12, 2021, as later amended)COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School Year (universal indoor masking in K-12 schools from July 12…	California Department of Public Health	CaliforniaState	July 12, 2021	2021 Q3	Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-PDX-042	Adoption of shortened quarantine options for close contacts outside high-priority settings (10 days without symptoms; 7 days with a negative test on or after day 5), Dec. 9, 2020; full 14 days retained for long-term care, health care, food processing, jail, school and child-care workersClark County adopts shortened COVID-19 quarantine options for some close contacts	Clark County Public Health (Dr. Alan Melnick, health officer and director), adopting Washington DOH and CDC options	Clark County, WashingtonCounty	Dec. 9, 2020	2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Health care ordersQuarantine and isolation	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)
Yolo County (homepage), Yolo County homepage as captured Sept. 1, 2021: notice of the new Face Covering Health Order and of the amended Local Quarantine Health Order (Ex. MET-SAC-072)
CDPH, Center for Health Care Quality, AFL 20-53.6, COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Recommendations for Testing of Health Care Personnel and Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities (revision of Dec. 27, 2021; series begun May 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089)
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)
Maryland Department of Health (Secretary Robert R. Neall), MDH Order of March 27, 2020, Designation of Health Officers (Quarantine) (Mar. 27, 2020) (Ex. ECO-B-058)
Washington State Legislature; signed by Governor Inslee May 11, 2021, Washington State Legislature bill summary, SB 5115 (2021-22), Establishing health emergency labor standards (May 11, 2021) (Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-008)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Mayor Ron Nirenberg (City news release describing Public Health Emergency Declaration No. 1), Public Health Emergency Declaration No. 1 and application for temporary restraining order (City release of March 2, 2020) (Mar. 2, 2020) (Ex. MET-SAT-001)
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)
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)
California Department of Public Health, CDPH, COVID-19 Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 2021-22 School Year (July 12, 2021, as later amended) (Ex. ECO-B-086)
Clark County Public Health (Dr. Alan Melnick, health officer and director), adopting Washington DOH and CDC options, Adoption of shortened quarantine options for close contacts outside high-priority settings (10 days without symptoms; 7 days with a negative test on or after day 5), Dec. 9, 2020; full 14 days retained for long-term care, health care, food processing, jail, school and child-care workers (Ex. MET-PDX-042)

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