Can I Reveal a Colleague’s Covid Diagnosis?

The Ethicist columnist on whether to keep a coworker's illness confidential, outing an unvaccinated colleague — and more.

...his decision to remain unvaccinated means that he could face an elevated risk of re-infection compared with a person in his situation who was also vaccinated and boosted. Particularly at a time when the rate of infection remains high, it would probably make sense for workers to comply with office precautionary policies more rigorously. Letting people know that they have interacted, unmasked, with someone who could have infected them might encourage greater vigilance... K. Anthony Appiah