HIPAA was only important for sexually transmitted diseases.
I imagine you will be required to self disclose. That should get around HIPPA. If not, then Justice Roberts will decide disclosing is a tax, so it’s allowed.
If I recall there’s a special exemption in the HIPAA laws for pandemics which carves out a limited release of info to authorities if you’re infected by a contagion.
Don’t know if that applies to vaccines or not but there might be a corollary to that.
HIPAA also doesn’t apply to other countries, which, unlike the United States, has requirements for entry and refuse whoever they wish. If they want you to prove you’re vaccinated before entering, you sure as heck will need to prove it.
I think the BIG FIGHT will be regarding domestic travel. Can airlines refuse to board you if not vaccinated? Can TSA block you if you’re not vaccinated? There will be a lot of fireworks on that, but given the government we now have (thanks again, Lin Wood), people on the freedom side of the debate will likely lose.
The only person HIPPA prevents from seeing your medical records is you.
Slightly hyperbolic, but mostly true.
If you give written permission, the provider can disclose if you have been vaccinated against this virus. That could easily be part of what you sign when you get the vaccine, that you give them permission to report that you got it. I assume you have to sign something when you show up for the vaccine. This may be in the release already as far as I would know, not having seen one.
In NJ there are signs at the entrance to most (or all?) stores that say that one must wear a mask to enter. A woman who was walking around my friend’s store without a mask. When she was asked to put one on, she replied that she didn’t have to wear one because of a medical problem. So my friend asked for some proof of this medical problem. This wound up getting him in all sorts of trouble with the State Attorney General. Asking about medical issues is apparently a touchy issue, at least in NJ.
ML/NJ
Read everything you signed online. You pretty much waived any privacy rights when you signed up. In Texas, it is going on a statewide registry, and info is also going to the feds as I recall. The list of who was getting your medical information was fairly long, and I don’t recall everyone who would have routine access.
I ended up not signing up for the county list before they shut it down. But I did read the releases.
HIPAA means your provider and insurer can’t disclose without your permission. It doesn’t mean some other service provider can’t demand. Really it’s no different than your MMR. Can’t go to most schools without being current.
HIPPA exists to advance the interests of the state.
With the Moderna they just scan me like my chipped hound.
But it has been setting off the anti-theft buzzer at WalMart.
Luckily I’m faster than the old fat mask sheriff at the door.
The ‘election infection’ served its purpose and now remains the extinguishment of the fraud in a manner that most sheep don’t realize extent of the Hoax perpetuated on the gullible. I have the disbelief that this country is so populated with Idiots.
I think people should consider purchasing a vaccine passport on the internet when they become required.
If it hasn’t already, it will be challenged in court.
Such restrictions - at least domestically in the U.S. - are fundamentally discriminatory and unconstitutional.