Letters to the Editor: May 19, 2021
Governor’s ban on ‘vaccine passports’ doesn’t make sense
While I can understand the position taken by Gov. Ron DeSantis on the privacy of health matters required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) regarding HIPPA rules on privacy of health matters, since we have encountered, endured and experienced this pandemic called COVID-19 for more than a year, and vaccinations have proven successful in stopping/slowing its spread, I cannot for the life of me understand his opposition to the so-called vaccine passports. He has not opposed the proof of being COVID-19 negative to anyone entering the United States of America as a violation of HIPAA, so why this discrepancy?