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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67340</law_id><section_number>32.1-37.01</section_number><catch_line>Posting of information about cases of communicable disease of public health threat</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Reporting of Diseases</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> As used in this section:
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Reporting entity</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">medical care facility</span>, residential or day program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the Commonwealth, school, or summer camp required to report an outbreak of a communicable disease pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Reports by persons other than physicians" href="/32.1-37/">32.1-37</a>. <a id="paragraph-244015" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-37.01/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Upon declaration of an emergency by the Governor pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Powers and duties of Governor" href="/44-146.17/">44-146.17</a> in response to a communicable disease of public health threat, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall make information regarding outbreaks of such communicable disease of public health threat reported pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Reports by persons other than physicians" href="/32.1-37/">32.1-37</a> available to the public on a website maintained by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, provided the release of such information does not violate the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records" href="/32.1-41/">32.1-41</a>. Such information shall include (i) the name of the <span class="dictionary">reporting entity</span> at which an outbreak of such communicable disease of public health threat has been reported; (ii) the number of confirmed cases of such communicable disease of public health threat reported by such <span class="dictionary">reporting entity</span>; and (iii) the number of deaths resulting from such communicable disease of public health threat reported by such <span class="dictionary">reporting entity</span>. <a id="paragraph-244016" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-37.01/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2020, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 12, 24.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
