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Aug 27, 2021, 01:56 AM
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Member Since: Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
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Oh @ChickenNoodleSoup Please dont think I am arguing or disagreeing with you. I am super passionate and a vaccine outreach coordinator. I had to dig for some info about this myself.
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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
It's her right to not disclose the information, but I'd be bothered if my T didn't tell me and got hostile over the question. Yes, it's a personal information, but so far everyone I've met talks about it. People in a store I often go to "oh, are you vaccinated yet?", I have asked my dentist whether he's vaccinated... my T disclosed getting the vaccine without me even asking.
Anyways, I'd wear a mask regardless of what her answer was. Vaccinated people still can spread the infection if they get it, so better safe than sorry. And since you'll switch in a few weeks anyways, I'd probably not dive into the topic more. If this was a permanent T, I'd honestly probably stop seeing them, not due to not being vaccinated but due to not disclosing it.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...942_story.html
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In these situations, they might be wondering whether they can ask the potentially loaded question: “Are you vaccinated?”
“Not only do they have the legal right, but I think they have an obligation to their own health and safety to ask the question,” said Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. “It’s an entirely appropriate and logical question to ask if someone is going to be in very close, personal contact with you: whether they’ve been vaccinated.”
It is not a violation of the oft-cited HIPAA federal privacy law to ask your doctor or dentist or other health-care workers, as well as people who provide close-contact services, including hair stylists, aestheticians, massage therapists and physical trainers, whether they are vaccinated.
“It’s awkward, but it’s not illegal,” said Robert Gatter, a professor with the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University’s School of Law. “If they share it with you, that’s their choice.”
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Gostin agreed. “It’s absolutely lawful and ethical and understandable from a deeply human point of view to want to know if the person that’s coming into close contact with you is vaccinated.”
Your employer can ask whether you’ve received the coronavirus vaccine — and even require it
There are also legal — and ethical — reasons those who are asked, especially health-care professionals, should answer honestly, experts said. People, regardless of their profession, could face legal consequences if they lie about their vaccination status, then infect others with the coronavirus, Gostin said.
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Getting vaccinated is more than a good idea. It’s an act of civic responsibility.
So clinicians who tell you that vaccination is a “personal decision,” as if it doesn’t affect, and therefore concern, anyone else, are making an all-too-common mistake. Your chiropractor thinks the current health of his own family is all that’s relevant, because he’s not considering that he might infect an elderly stranger and cause her death. (One C.D.C. study suggests that a majority of Covid cases were transmitted by people who weren’t symptomatic at the time.) He isn’t very likely to do that at work, of course, assuming he’s taking the proper precautions, including masking and ensuring proper ventilation in the small room where he works. Even so, his clients would be still safer if he and his assistant were vaccinated. That’s why it isn’t a personal decision, in the intended sense. Getting vaccinated, for those without medical contraindications, is more than a good idea; it’s something we owe one another. It’s an act of civic responsibility.
And note that the C.D.C.’s recent “at ease” guidance for the vaccinated is predicated on the unvaccinated’s maintaining proper vigilance. When an unvaccinated health care worker caused an outbreak in a Kentucky nursing facility this March, residents who were vaccinated enjoyed a relatively high level of protection, but 18 became infected nonetheless, and one died. The elderly seem at particular risk for “breakthrough infections,” to be sure. Still, when people choose to be unvaccinated, they have chosen to increase the risk to others.
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Is It OK to Ask Health Care Providers if They’re Vaccinated? - The New York Times
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