Posted on 08/11/2021 8:11:45 PM PDT by blueplum
The top lawyer at a Queens public defender’s office is patient zero of a COVID-19 outbreak — sparking an ongoing conflict over her decision to keep colleagues in the dark about her diagnosis for three days, the Daily News has learned.
Lori Zeno, the embattled executive director of Queens Defenders, informed her office Sunday that a staff member had tested positive for COVID. It wasn’t until Tuesday that she admitted she was actually the infected staffer.
...After Zeno tested positive, four other Queens Defenders also got COVID, three of them attorneys who shared their names with the rest of the office.
Zeno continued throughout Sunday to send staffwide emails, finally announcing later that night that she was closing the office amid mounting complaints...
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Lawyers? They may get sick and perish. Hmmm, and the downside is what?
Yah gotta love the ‘rats...
Wow.
Screw this stupid flu. Time to starve the beast
No tests. Ever.
You get a cold So what ? Take it like a man or woman. Grow up !
Screw this commie bullcrap
They want it to go on FOREVER ! Medical tyranny !!!
She doesn’t have to disclose it was her. That’s hippa information. The only thing that needed disclosure was their contact with a Covid positive person
So...I’m guessing she hasn’t told her boyfriend (girlfriend?) about the genital herpies...
It’s a start.
hipaa doesn’t apply
“Asking about vaccine status would not violate HIPAA but it is possible that other laws could be violated. For instance, requiring employees to disclose additional health information such as the reason why they are not vaccinated...”
and, same source,
“The EEOC confirmed “there’s no indication that there’s any federal law that would be violated by the employer asking this question.”
https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-it-a-hipaa-violation-to-ask-for-proof-of-vaccine-status/
if any employer, can ask, it follows a fellow employee can also ask and tell of themselves - those that ask just can’t say anything else after the yes or no response -they have to zip it. The ‘why’ is verboten. But an exasperated statement that doesn’t really request or expect an answer, like, why didn’t you tell me so I could take precautions? should be just fine, whether it’s a coworker or friend or family. But making further comments would also be verboten because in the workplace you’d trigger harassment rules.
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