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At least two-thirds of states throughout the country are sharing the addresses of people who have actually evaluated positive for coronavirus with very first responders, and at least 10 states are going so far as to share patients’ identities.
The move is an effort by authorities to arm law enforcement officer, firefighters, EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS and other frontline workers with information that might assist them prevent contracting the infection from one of the over 11 million people who have actually been infected in the U.S., according to reports by the Associated Press.
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Nevertheless, those clients who took a test were assured that their private medical details would not be divulged to anybody else, and activists are worried that exposing the information would put minority groups at greater risk of being racially profiled, increasing tensions betw