佛罗里达州法医公布新冠肺炎死亡数据遭阻 州政府:涉及隐私请停止...
据佛罗里达州当地媒体《坦帕湾时报》报道,佛罗里达州卫生部门要求该州法医停止向公众公布新冠肺炎死亡人数。
《坦帕湾时报》此前曾指出,法医们公布的死亡人数比佛罗里达州卫生部门公布的人数多出10%。
佛罗里达州卫生部门表示“出于隐私方面的考虑”,要求法医停止公布死亡人数和死者姓名。但佛罗里达州法医委员会负责人斯蒂芬·纳尔逊认为,这属于公开信息范畴,纳税人有权知晓。
The U.S. state of Florida is trying to block medical examiners from releasing data related to the COVID-19 death toll, local newspapers have reported.
The numbers and names of COVID-19 fatalities should be public information and taxpayers have the right to know, Dr. Stephen Nelson, chairman of the state's Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times.
This came after the newspaper reported that the commission's real-time release of COVID-19 death toll is 10 percent higher than the state's number.
The health department cited "privacy concerns" as a reason to pause the commission's data release.
But Nelson told media that the record should be public under the state's law.
"This is no different than any other public record we deal with," Nelson said. "It's paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know."
Nelson said death records have been kept and made public since 1992 until being paused by the government more than a week ago.
《坦帕湾时报》还指出,自从新冠肺炎疫情在佛罗里达州暴发后,从州政府获取一些相关的公开信息十分困难。
Tampa Bay Times also said it's hard to extract public information from the Florida government after the COVID-19 outbreak hit the state.
“佛罗里达的防疫成果超出预期。在我们这样一个人口众多、文化多元的州,需要因地制宜,审慎制定防控措施。各种数据和科学方法帮助我们顺利‘压平曲线’。”
注:“压平曲线”是由美国疾控中心提出的疫情控制理论,指在疫情早期采取各种措施延缓疫情高峰期到来,并尽量避免集中暴发,压低峰值期患者人数,以避免医疗系统超负荷运转甚至崩溃。
在州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯一则赞扬佛罗里达防疫成果的推特帖文下面,许多网友提出了质疑,表示卫生部门阻止法医公布死亡数据是在隐瞒疫情真实情况。
“通过不开放检测、隐瞒病例数和死亡数据来‘压平曲线’?”
“在死亡数据和检测能力方面撒谎也有助于‘压平曲线’,对吗?”
“‘压平曲线’是因为你让验尸官停止公布死亡数据”
“为什么拒绝发布死亡数据?”
“为什么让佛罗里达州官员阻止法医公布死亡人数?这些为佛罗里达州奉献一切的居民不配要求疫情信息公开透明吗?为什么要隐瞒数据?”
“不公布公共数据信息是违法行为。”
“州政府必须公布相关信息,否则就是违反了《信息自由法》。”
“希望有人能尽快提起诉讼。这一做法违反了《公共记录法》。”
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