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Can Governments Enforce Social Distancing And Quarantines?

The White House is urging people to stay home amid the coronavirus outbreak, but at this point, the federal government has no power to enforce this order. So how are state and local governments enforcing quarantines when people ignore them?

St. Louis Public Radio’s Eli Chen (@StoriesByEli) reports on how decades-old quarantine policies have left some states unprepared for the COVID-19 outbreak.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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