The stringent measures stated:
"Whenever appropriate to control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease, the State Commissioner of Health may issue and/or may direct the local health authority to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders, consistent with due process of law, to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate."Isolations could include home confinement, or in residential or temporary housing, based on what the public health authority deemed "appropriate."
For more serious illnesses that require hospitalization, infected individuals were required to spend the quarantine period in a New York hospital. "Symptoms or conditions indicate that medical care in a general hospital is expected to be required, the isolation location shall be a general hospital," read the now scrapped requirements.
Comment: Passive America is rudely awakening.