Medical/legal pedes, have the protections of HIPAA been suspended for the scamdemic response? It was my understanding that it is illegal to even ask someone about their personal medical information.
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I'm assuming all hipaa still applies because at my work (government facility) they have always expressly said it is voluntary to disclose your status. Literally everytime they mention possibly quarantining or whatever they say it is voluntary to say your status.
Hint: MOST people who have been "trained in HIPAA" ... (a) have never READ the HIPAA statute, and (b) have NO IDEA what it really says.
They just take the word of the person who "trained them," and that person ALSO never read it and has no idea what it says, because they took someone's word, too.
We are seeing this play out in this thread.
GO READ HIPAA. Don't assume it says what you WANT it to say. Most likely, it does not.
Also I don't think you can suspend hipaa without a literal act of congress