 In medical contexts, “privacy” is commonly used to denote autonomy, liberty or choice in health-related decision-making (Allen 2014; DeCew 1997; Feinberg 1983). Patients’ active participation in health-related decisions and control of their bodies—without undue interference of government or unauthorized persons—is a decisional variant of the concept of privacy. Women are often ascribed a “privacy right” to use medically prescribed birth control and to elect medically safe abortions. Men and women are ascribed a “privacy right” to utilize in vitro fertilization, surrogate gestators, and other reproductive technologies. Men and women with terminal illnesses or in vegetative comas are ascribed a “privacy right” to refuse life-sustaining nutrition, respirators, and medical care (Beauchamp 2000). Decisional privacy was problematically implicated in decisions whether to self-isolate or wear a facial covering to avert the spread of COVID-19, and has come up in relation to other health-impacting life-style decisions. 