So was the requirement to report workers admitted for treatment of COVID-19.
So were the requirements for health care facilities to adopt standards and protocols to lessen exposure risks and submit internal exposure analyses to the Health Department.
The data on positive cases and deaths of health care workers doesn’t have to be posted on the Health Department website, either.
Instead, the Health Department must issue a report “no later than 12 months after the end of both the state of emergency and public health emergency declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The revisions effectively gutted a bill designed with public transparency in mind so the public could understand COVID’s impact on the front-line workers that they and political leaders have praised through 11 months of the pandemic as essential heroes.