Should citizens be able to access a database of COVID-19 patients?

Would you trust this guy to tell you if he had COVID-19 or should the names of people who test positive be available to the public?

If you are the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and you contract the coronavirus the world knows the next day. Everyone knows when movie stars like Tom Hanks, musicians like Joe Diffie, or news anchors like Chris Cuomo contract the virus, but what about everyone else?

The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently released data indicating that 51 South Korean patients classified as cured have tested positive again and that they don’t believe it was possible for these people to have been reinfected, instead they contend that the virus “reactivated” itself.

“While we are putting more weight on reactivation as the possible cause, we are conducting a comprehensive study on this. There have been many cases when a patient during treatment will test negative one day and positive another.”-Jeong Eun-kyeong, director-general of the Korean CDC

In order to stop the spread of this deadly virus should the names of everyone who contracts it be accessible to the public or would that information be too great a infringement on privacy that it threatens democracy?

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