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Thursday, August 5, 2021

Vaccination Debate - Legal and Social Issues

HIPAA, the health privacy law that’s more limited than you think, explained
https://www.vox.com/recode/22363011/hipaa-not-hippa-explained-health-privacy
 
What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A health law scholar explains
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-hipaa-privacy-rule-a-health-law-scholar-explains-164925 

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/vaccine-refusers-dont-want-blue-americas-respect/619627/
What is going on here? Sociology suggests that pundits and policy makers have been looking at vaccine refusal all wrong: It’s not an individual problem, but a social one. …
Pandemics, by definition, are collective problems. They propagate and kill because people live in communities. As a result, addressing pandemics requires understanding interpersonal dynamics—not just what promotes trust among people, but which behaviors convey status or lead to ostracism. …
In Missouri and other red states, vaccine refusal on partisan grounds has become a defining marker of community affiliation. Acceptance within some circles is contingent on refusal to cooperate with the Biden administration’s public-health campaign. Getting vaccinated is a betrayal of that group norm, and those who get the shot can legitimately fear losing their job or incurring the wrath of their families and other reference groups.