Although the Trump administration previously indicated that it wasn’t considered federal orders on quarantines, it’s now apparently changing its tune. President Donald Trump indicated i…
The federal government impose quarantines under the Public Health Service Act to prevent the spread of communicable disease into the United States or between states.
Trump made the remarks to reporters as he left to greet the hospital ship Comfort in Virginia. The ship is headed to New York harbor, where more than 600 people have died.
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