This article was updated on Wednesday, March 25 with new information.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week under the Defense Production Act of 1950 empowering the federal government to require manufacturers to allocate their output of surgical masks and antiviral respirators, ventilators and other medical equipment to combat the growing COVID-19 pandemic, citing a national security emergency.

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