It’s a Tuesday morning in suburban Pennsylvania. Your twelve-year-old is at school. The doorbell rings. Two officials from the Department of Health flash their credentials and walk into your living room. They don’t have a warrant because they don’t need one.
They’re investigating a “condition” — a new catch-all term that covers not just infectious disease, but any noninfectious medical ailment or health-related event. They want your family’s medical records. Your child, they tell you, has been flagged in the state system as “susceptible.”
