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AS COVID-19 TORE through the United States in the spring, a senior official
in the Trump administration quietly reinforced a set of guidelines that
prevented journalists from getting inside all but a handful of hospitals at
the front line of the pandemic. The guidelines, citing the medical privacy
law known as HIPAA, suggested a nearly impossible standard: Before letting
journalists inside Covid-19 wards, hospitals needed prior permission from
not only the specific patients the journalists would interview, but also
other patients whose names or identities would be accessible.
The onerous guidelines were issued on May 5 by Roger Severino, who worked at
the conservative Heritage Foundation before Donald Trump appointed him to
direct the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human
Services, or HHS. The guidelines made it extremely difficult for hospitals
to give photographers the opportunity to collect visual evidence of the
pandemic’s severity.
The media guidelines announced by Severino in May reinforced HIPAA’s
restrictions and warned hospitals that violations could bring fines in the
millions of dollars. The announcement was not reported by general-interest
publications, but news outlets for the health care industry noticed what had
happened. The headline of one of those industry stories was blunt: “
Patient Privacy Prevails Over Covid-19 Media Coverage.” | S**********p
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