by Rebecca Terrell, The New American:
In an April 19 article at LewRockwell.com, natural-health entrepreneur Dr. Joseph Mercola updates readers on his ongoing investigation into government tracking of the unvaccinated.
Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added three new diagnostic codes to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical list maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new codes specifically target immunization status. If you have not received the Covid jab, your medical chart will now bear the stamp Z28.310 (unvaccinated for COVID-19). If you are not fully boosted, you’ll be labeled with Z28.311 (partially vaccinated for COVID-19). Patients deemed vaccine deficient in non-Covid related diseases get the designation Z28.39 (other under-immunization status).
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Fact-checkers such as Reuters spout the usual “nothing to see here” response. The diagnosis codes merely help doctors identify at-risk patients and help public health officials track statistics, they say. However, WHO specifies that ICDs “support payment systems [and] service planning,” among other patient-care roles.
In fact, since 2021 healthcare providers have been using Covid vaccination status to determine whether to service individual patients. In October 2021, the Cleveland Clinic canceled a life-saving kidney transplant surgery since the donor was not vaccinated. Colorado’s UCHealth confirmed its 2021 policy to deny organ transplants to unvaccinated patients.
Last year a three-year-old toddler from Cyprus with serious heart disease could not get lifesaving surgery because his parents were not vaccinated against Covid; three countries rejected him on that basis. April 2022 saw an Ohio hospital refuse to perform a kidney transplant on nine-year-old Tanner Donaldson because his father/potential donor refused the Covid jab. And this past April, Emory Healthcare, Inc. of Atlanta rejected a 41-year-old homeschooling mother of seven for a kidney transplant. Though she already had Covid and recovered, she could not receive this life-saving care because she refused the jab.
These are just a few examples of the common practice afflicting patients worldwide.
Privacy Protected, Except When It’s Not
Mercola argues that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), supposedly designed to protect patient privacy, gives ample exemptions to government agencies to pry into individuals’ medical records.
In fact, federal agencies such as the CDC are “particularly justified to access your private vaccination data if there’s an outbreak of infectious disease, be it real or fictitious,” writes Mercola. He quotes CDC’s guidance document regarding HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, which “expressly permits disclosures without individual authorization to public health authorities … including but not limited to public health surveillance, investigation, and intervention.…” (Emphasis added.)
Moreover, CDC’s Public Health Law permits personal patient data to be disclosed to third parties “without patient authorization,” and the reasons fall under the all-encompassing umbrella rationale: “for public health purposes.”
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