How is contact tracing not a violation of the HIPPA? I understand according to HIPPA that during a pandemic certain health officials are allowed to tell certain people if a person is infectious. But how far does that go meaning who can they tell?
for example the department that I work for, If a person tests positive, The big boss has a team assigned specifically for Covid. Now these team members are nothing more than rank and file “ Suck asses“. They have been instructed by our legal department for anybody who tests positive they are to send an email out to all of the department heads with the positive person’s name and that they tested positive for Covid along with anyone that person has been in contact with at work or at home. Now obviously the only way they would know outside of work who that person has been in contact with would be for the positive person to tell them.
this just doesn’t seem right to me.
(please forgive any spelling or punctuation errors as I am dictating this driving down the road via Bluetooth)
for example the department that I work for, If a person tests positive, The big boss has a team assigned specifically for Covid. Now these team members are nothing more than rank and file “ Suck asses“. They have been instructed by our legal department for anybody who tests positive they are to send an email out to all of the department heads with the positive person’s name and that they tested positive for Covid along with anyone that person has been in contact with at work or at home. Now obviously the only way they would know outside of work who that person has been in contact with would be for the positive person to tell them.
this just doesn’t seem right to me.
(please forgive any spelling or punctuation errors as I am dictating this driving down the road via Bluetooth)