Found this in some research.
“...What of Today?
Our current concerns about possible terrorist-induced epidemic, or another SARS-like outbreak, throw the experience of Mare Island Navy Yard and Vallejo into high relief. A very contagious, virulent virus could produce so large a volume of illness so quickly as to overwhelm local medical capabilities.
In California there is “no specific authority” for public health officials to “deputize” or otherwise organize local medical personnel to respond to an emergency. While quarantine can be ordered with judicial approval, medical response to a public health emergency is [still] based on a “gentleperson’s agreement” among the various parties.20 Country health officials and local hospitals work together developing action plans to be instituted in the event of a large public contagion.
Clearly, there could be a large role for military medicine in some future contagion. This would call for civilian-military contingency planning for such an eventuality. Strategies for a public health response and for the management of large numbers of very sick people must be put in place now.”
“The Great Flu Crisis at Mare Island Navy Yard, and Vallejo, California”