Opinion | LevinsonJessica: HIPAA doesn’t prevent you from sharing any information regarding your own health. Marjorie Taylor Greene should probably know that.
It’s worth exploring why one of our elected lawmakers either doesn’t understand or blatantly lies about a federal law — especially one we are all going to be talking quite a bit about over the coming months as we navigate whether or not we will have to reveal our Covid-19 vaccination status.
In her posts that got her kicked off Twitter, Greene claimed that Covid-19 is only a threat for older people and obese people. The tweets were very much keeping with Greene’s general approach to scientific information regarding the pandemic: She has been a vocal and leading opponent of things that actually keep us safe from Covid-19, like masks and vaccines.
Greene either truly does not understand what HIPAA covers or she is simply openly lying about the applicability of a federal law because she doesn’t want to say whether or not she is vaccinated.if she herself did receive the potentially life-saving inoculation. Employees can refuse to provide information, like whether or not they have received a Covid-19 vaccination, but their employers can thenOutside of the employer-employee context, can your local restaurant ask for your vaccination status? The owner of the bookstore down the street?HIPAA doesn’t prevent you from sharing any information regarding your own health. If you want to go on television and discuss the most intimate details of your medical history, find a camera and be my guest.
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