Letter: Infection outbreaks

Dear Editor:
Recent actions by our Board of County Commissioners and their attorney apparently intend to suppress accurate reporting of public health data. Certainly it is important to protect individual health records (and those protections have been followed), but there are very good reasons for timely and accurate disclosure of infection outbreaks. Those reports help public health officers and elected officials to track the spread of an infection in the population. That enables targeted preventive…