Disguised People Getting Vaccine In Secret So Peers Won't Know- Truth In Recent News Stories

[appalachiablue]

Daily Kos, July 29, 2021.

This story broke a few days ago as what might be seen as a minor illustrative account about how a few people try to hide the fact that they went against the beliefs of their peer group and got vaccinated. However, as media observers say, it has had legs. It is still being reported on today. See web news search here.

You can see the articles that caught my attention under the Groucho glasses in the Top Stories section in Google News this morning in the illustration above. Here they are:





Excerpt from Daily News article:

“I work closely with our pharmacists who are leading our vaccine efforts through our organization,” Dr. Priscilla Frase, hospitalist and chief medical information officer at Ozarks Healthcare, said in a video the health care facility posted to Facebook. “One of them told me the other day that they have had several people who have come in to get vaccinated who have kind of tried to disguise their appearance.

They even went so far as to say, ‘Please, please, please, don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine. I don’t want my friends to know. I don’t want to get COVID. I want to get the vaccine.’ "

This is a small story, a vignette really, from a hospitalist who is chief medical information officer at Ozarks Healthcare in West Plains, Missouri. How many people nationwide are donning disguises in addition to their masks to keep their anti-vaxxer family and friends from finding out can only be guessed at. Some people who want to keep their vaccination secret could chose to go to a site very far from where they live rather than risk running into someone they know who flies a Trump flag on their front lawn who, I’d like to think, may be picking up morning after pills and also would rather not be recognized.

Of course people should understand that like physicians, pharmacists are bound by HIPPA laws and even if these didn’t exist they would have to keep information like a patient’s vaccination status confidential. I’d like to believe that no matter their politics a pharmacist, or anyone else involved in the Covid vaccination effort, would not go home and tell their anti-vaxxer friends “you’ll never believe who I gave a Covid shot to this afternoon.”...

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[Mme. Defarge]

1. Here's my reaction to this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215676136

[appalachiablue]

2. This population will have to be factored in

somehow, and how else can the news cover this? It isn't the only case where people aren't honest about their behavior because of community peer pressure, legalities and other reasons- ie. voting, smoking, gambling and other controversial or risky activity.

[ShazzieB]

3. Just have to get this out of my system....

It's HIPAA, not HIPPA!

HIPAA = Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

Sorry, but I'm just sooo tired of people getting that wrong. I really try hard to not be a spelling nazi, but I draw the line at a source like DailyKos, which should be more careful about things like this. I know it's a confusing acronym, which is why I don't yell at individuals who stumble over it. But that's what copy editors are (supposed to be) for, and if DailyKos doesn't have competent copy editors, they need to get some.

This has been a public service announcement, brought to you by a frustrated English major and former medical coder. You may now return to DU's regularly scheduled programming.j

[KentuckyWoman]

4. No joke

The front desk clerk at my cardiologist says Hippo.

I really am unsure if she's having fun with us or if she just doesn't know.

[Skittles]

5. agreed

HIPAA has been around long enough for people to get it right