State Quarantine Orders

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State quarantine orders

Iowa
"The Iowa Department of Public Health has determined that you have had contact with a person with Novel Influenza A H1N1," the form reads. "The Department has determined that it is necessary to quarantine your movement to a specific facility to prevent further spread of this disease.
"The Department has determined that quarantine in your home and other less restrictive alternatives are not acceptable," the document continues, before listing mandatory provisions of compliance with relocation to a quarantine facility.

According to the CDC, the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the H1N1 virus:

Florida ? the Florida surgeon general suspended distribution permit requirements Florida statutes to allow wholesale distribution of Tamiflu and Relenza. The state has also distributed a series of blank quarantine order forms, including a voluntary home quarantine agreement, a quarantine to residence order, a quarantine to residence order (non-compliance), a quarantine to facility order, quarantine detention order, quarantine of facility order, building quarantine closure order and area quarantine closure order.

Iowa ? In addition to the facility quarantine order listed above, Iowa has also made available forms for voluntary home confinement, home quarantine and home isolation.

Massachusetts ? Massachusetts lists its own procedures for isolation and quarantine.

North Carolina ? The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released a draft isolation order that would provide for imprisonment for up to two years and pretrial detention without bail for any citizen who fails to comply with an isolation order.

Washington ? Washington grants authority to local health officers to issue emergency detention orders causing citizens to be immediately and involuntarily isolated or quarantined for up to 10 days.

In addition, governors and health commissioners in the following states have declared a state of emergency since April following concerns about the H1N1 virus: California, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

 

[Chuck]

Re: State Quarantine Orders

Laws providing for broad emergency powers have been on the books in many places for centuries. They are written to provide for emergency governmental actions under unforeseeable circumstances. It has been understood that the powers would be exercised in proportion to the emergency, and the more extreme provisions have rarely if ever been put into practice. With few isolated exceptions, these provisions have been used with restraint and common sense. They are nothing new.

 

[tropical]

Re: State Quarantine Orders

#1: "quarantine of facility order"

Possible example (fictional):

for non closed educational facilities having spreadings of asymptomatic and obvious symptoms pandemic flu carriers between the pupils and teachers

The teachers will attend the pupils during the quarantine period ...

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: State Quarantine Orders

"the Florida surgeon general suspended distribution permit requirements Florida statutes to allow wholesale distribution of Tamiflu and Relenza."

This is important. If I understand well, Florida will allow wholesale distribution of antivirals and no permit will be required.

Does that mean it could be sold without a prescription in pharmacies?