I understand the consequences but why stop at diseases.
How about reporting on employees who are convicted child predators? Any employee that has been convicted of assault because the other day I saw a Times employee challenge a customer to a fight. I understand that employers want to be more proactive in the Covid afforts but they shouldn't be required to disclose on their employees health conditions.
In regards to healthcare professionals like yourself that are mandated to disclose, I am assuming that the information is kept anonymous? ANd is for mapping purposes and surveillance.

Can you see how govt can and most likely will abuse this mandate /law?

So what does a consumer do with that information of a worker infected with COVID19? They will likely avoid that business.
The slippery slope is that govt. would want to expand this mandatory reporting to households. Would you like to know which homes in your area have COVID19 infected people? We already know where the sex offenders are - you know for "public safety".

HIPAA does not really apply to non-healthcare private businesses reporting positive cases that they know about.   

And there are already exceptions for reporting dangerous infectious diseases to the state.  I have a list of 35 infectious diseases on a form right next to me that I am legally required to report to the state immediately even if it is against the wishes of the patient.  Stuff like measles, tuberculosis  and small pox.    You can probably imagine the issues that would occur if I could not report an active tuberculosis case to the state because the patient wanted their privacy and then they proceed to go to a big family party and start spreading around multidrug resistant tuberculosis.   That is unless you want to make Molokai a leper colony again.

Yes it can be a slippery slope.  Like I said, I dont trust the state or the DOH.   

But I would avoid the business if they had a bunch of covid positive workers.   I have a 340% chance of getting covid being a healthcare worker (even with PPE) and my statistical risk of dying from it is 10-15% because of my medical issues and age.  Its probably higher because I live on the Big Island which lacks doctors including the specialists who are best to treat covid.   We have one pulmonologist on the island and he isnt running the ICU in my hospital. 

 Boy if I had a 10% chance of dying if I went to home depot today I would sure as hell not go to home depot today.  I dont give a crap if that ruins their quarterly numbers.  Of course I would want to know if a business has a high chance of killing me.   

I already assume everyone around me has Covid, I dont need to know which houses have it.   But that's a bit hyperbole I think.  They are not going to start labeling houses with who has Covid.  The department of health is so incompetent that they cant answer the phone when I call.   To think of them actually having the ability to do that level of patient tracing and identification is absurd.   I suspect they have trouble even putting their pants on in the morning.  I should not have to call my state representative to get him to call the governor to get them to call the department of health leadership just to get them to do contact tracing on a family who's family member tested positive 3 days ago.  But that's what I had to do.   My dog could run the DOH better.

My list includes:

36) People who kiss their cats on the lips

They reportedly only have 20 trained and active tracers. 🤷🏻‍♂️  I work for a medium/large compaby and we recently had a positive case.  They told us the company HR checked in with them more than the State.

Would you like to know which homes in your area have COVID19 infected people?