Data Accident Releases Covid-19 Results for 25% of Wyoming By Mead Gruver | April 29, 2021
CreplaceENNE, Wyo. (AP) A Wyoming Department of Health employee working with computer code accidentally released COVID-19 test results for one-quarter of the state’s residents as well as associated names, addresses, birth dates and other information, the department announced Tuesday.
The employee also inadvertently released law enforcement blood alcohol test information for thousands of others going back to 2012.
In all, the employee released information on 164,010 people to private and public storage locations on GitHub.com, an internet-based software development platform. The release included COVID-19 plus flu test results for 145,698 Wyoming residents and blood alcohol test results for another 18,312 people mainly from Wyoming but also other states.
Data accident releases COVID-19 results for 25% of Wyoming
By MEAD GRUVERApril 27, 2021 GMT
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A Wyoming Department of Health employee working with computer code accidentally released COVID-19 test results for one-quarter of the state’s residents as well as associated names, addresses, birth dates and other information, the department announced Tuesday.
The employee also inadvertently released law enforcement blood alcohol test information for thousands of others going back to 2012.
In all, the employee released information on 164,010 people to private and public storage locations on GitHub.com, an internet-based software development platform. The release included COVID-19 plus flu test results for 145,698 Wyoming residents and blood alcohol test results for another 18,312 people mainly from Wyoming but also other states.
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Wyoming’s two remaining COVID-19 statewide public health orders will remain in effect through at least May 16, the Wyoming Department of Health said Wednesday. Mask use and physical distancing requirements related to educational institutions remain, agency spokeswoman Kim Deti said in a news release. Indoor events of more than 500 people may be held at 50 percent of venue capacity with specific mask protocols for large indoor events. WDH recommends masks in indoor public places when common-sense physical distancing cannot be maintained among people who don’t live in the same household, Deti added.
Deti says estimates show nearly 25 percent of Wyoming’s population has been fully vaccinated so far, including 32 percent of adults 18 and over and more than 55 percent of adults 65 and over.
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