Introduction
On President Biden’s first two days in office, he issued a National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness and 11 related Executive Orders, including an Executive Order on a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain. The National Strategy proposes a “comprehensive,” “coordinated,” and “aggressive” response to the pandemic. One of the National Strategy’s seven stated goals is to “[i]mmediately expand emergency relief and exercise the Defense Production Act” (DPA). It is too soon to know the full extent of actions that the Biden Administration will take in furtherance of this goal, but its immediate initiatives mark a departure from the Trump Administration’s approach.