Delaware News Journal Vaccine skepticism during the COVID-19 pandemic has revived a debate over a nearly 20-year-old law allowing Delaware to quarantine and isolate people if they refuse an inoculation. The law was originally written to help the state respond to bioterrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Gov. John Carney's office said he does not plan to use the authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to make sure that he doesn't. Senate Bill 58 by Sen. Dave Lawson, R-Marydel, would remove the governor's ability to isolate or quarantine people against their will during Carney's COVID-19 state of emergency. The bill does not take the powers away from the governor for future emergencies.