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Yes. If a public health emergency is declared by the government the Surgeon General of The United States has broad authority to act to prevent an outbreak of a possibly epidemic-size infectious disease that would threaten the general population of the country and possibly overwhelm the nation's medical care facilities. See related link below:

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