In a free society, information would be readily made available on the location, age, sex and ethnicity of the infected and the dead, as well as other data. People would draw their own conclusions. Failure to provide data allowing people to draw their own conclusions is the clearest example of the distrust and contempt the government holds for its “subjects”.
They started that crap with the rise of HIV. Remember when they could not even put that on a in hospital bed chart? From there we went to complete patient privacy. IMO, in a health emergency which was cited by our President, all the info on the patients should be made known. How the hell can one decide whether or not they are at risk if they do not know as to whom they are at risk with?