批评人士称，拟议中的公共卫生法规可能允许政府进入私人住宅并扩大监视范围
2026年9月18日 美国东部时间12:45 / 福克斯新闻
作者：查尔斯·克赖茨
宾夕法尼亚州拟修订卫生法规遭反封锁议员抨击
黎巴嫩选区的宾夕法尼亚州众议员拉斯·戴蒙德周一向福克斯新闻数字频道发声，批评州政府计划修订卫生法规的提案，称该提案将赋予官僚们警察权力。
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宾夕法尼亚州议员警告称，该州拟修订的公共卫生规则可能开启“COVID 2.0”时代，让卫生官员在未来疫情暴发期间对居民拥有全面的“警察权力”。
反对宾夕法尼亚州拟出台的502页卫生法规修订案的议员们敦促公众在截止日期前提交意见，警告该提案可能成为无限制、侵入性限制措施和监视行动的路线图，其中包括报道所称的机构代表可进入私人住宅的权力。
“这绝对是COVID 2.0，但甚至更糟，因为[州长]乔希·夏皮罗试图绕过或规避我们宾夕法尼亚州人民投票通过的宪法条款，该条款旨在剥夺州长此类权力，”领导反对该政策修订的黎巴嫩选区共和党众议员拉斯·戴蒙德说道。
“我们是全美唯一一个在新冠疫情后通过宪法修正案削减州长权力的州，”戴蒙德补充道，并表示“监视、隔离和检疫”是正在评估的领域。
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宾夕法尼亚州选民在2021年批准了一项宪法修正案，将州长的灾难声明期限限制在21天，除非得到州议会的延长。这些紧急权力在前州长汤姆·沃尔夫的全州缓解令中发挥了核心作用。
在这份长达502页的拟议法规10-242号《传染性和非传染性疾病》中，宾夕法尼亚州卫生部提议扩大需报告的疾病、感染和病症清单，并更新规则以反映不断变化的专业标准。“卫生部提议在本小节中增加内容，表明卫生部或地方卫生当局可根据本章第208条的规定，为开展调查，必要时进入公寓、建筑物、医疗机构、学校、学院或大学，或其他场所，”批评人士强调的一项条款写道。
“我认为我们不希望这位极左倾向的州长及其卫生部的爪牙在宾夕法尼亚州拥有这种警察权力，”戴蒙德说道。
卫生部长黛布拉·博根博士的发言人曾领导匹兹堡地区的新冠缓解工作，她表示夏皮罗“并未亲自提出”这些修订案，并驳斥了批评人士的说法。
“任何曲解这些旨在恐吓宾夕法尼亚州民众的拟议修改都是不准确且不真诚的，”尼尔·鲁兰告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
夏皮罗的发言人周三也回应了批评，称州长的理念是“公共卫生依赖信任”，并强调拟议的卫生法规是更新州机构 across 约200个监管领域的更大努力的一部分。
拉波夫斯基告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，公众、利益相关者、独立监管机构和立法机构可以审查并回应拟议的修改。
“本月晚些时候公众意见征集结束后，[夏皮罗]将发表意见，法规也将据此修订，”她说。
拉波夫斯基表示，夏皮罗对公众信任的重视还包括尊重父母的权利。批评人士称，拟议的法规可能会赋予卫生部门更大的权力，管控涉及儿童的某些疾病防控措施，包括口罩令。拉波夫斯基补充道，州长认为“政府应与其服务的民众密切合作”。
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鲁兰表示，宾夕法尼亚州卫生部早在几年前就开始分析并提议更新法规，相关法规已有25年历史，需要现代化改造以“更好地满足不断演变的公共卫生需求并管控危险疾病”。
尽管拟议的法规本身并未出台新的口罩令，但它们将疾病防控用语的范围扩大到了“监视”之外——“监视”一词曾是疫情期间宾夕法尼亚州全州学校口罩令诉讼的核心。
宾夕法尼亚州众议院少数党领袖杰西·托珀告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，尽管拟议的法规直接影响宾夕法尼亚州，但其他地区的美国人也应予以关注。
“美国各地的每个人都曾以这样或那样的方式受到新冠疫情的影响，”来自麦康奈尔斯堡的共和党众议员托珀说道。
“我们曾是全美封锁最严格的州之一，新冠死亡率也位居全国前列……我们不希望未经选举产生的官僚做出此类决定。我们需要遵循联邦宪法，宪法规定‘嘿，如果你想宣布公共卫生灾难紧急状态，当然可以。但21天后，州议会将决定你是否可以继续实施’。”
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州参议员道格·马斯特里亚诺来自葛底斯堡的共和党议员，他与戴蒙德一同领导了疫情期间针对封锁政策的抗议活动，他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，拟议的法规是对选民意愿的“迂回绕过”。
“宾夕法尼亚州在新冠疫情期间已经受够了政府越权行为。我们不会重蹈覆辙，”马斯特里亚诺说道，他曾被唐纳德·特朗普总统提名为美国驻斯洛伐克大使。
律师、副州长共和党候选人杰森·里奇也将这些修改称为“COVID 2.0”。
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“这些甚至比新冠时期的规定更糟糕……[卫生部]可以查看你的医疗记录。他们可以无需搜查令就进入任何建筑进行调查。他们甚至可以未经你同意就把你的孩子从学校带走并私下与他谈话，”里奇上周在利哈伊县的宾夕法尼亚州卫生部办公室外录制的视频中说道。
除公共卫生影响外，托珀表示他担心拟议的法规会扩大政府权力。
托珀和鲁兰都鼓励宾夕法尼亚州民众在周一的公众意见征集截止日期前就拟议法规提交反馈。
本文作者在宾夕法尼亚州艾伦敦出生长大，自2013年起在福克斯新闻的纽约和华盛顿分社工作。
‘COVID 2.0’: Lawmakers push back on sweeping health ‘police power’ in key battleground state
Critics say proposed public health regulations could allow government entry into private homes and expand surveillance
September 18, 2026 12:45pm EDT / Fox News
By Charles Creitz
Pennsylvania’s planned health code rewrite blasted by anti-lockdown lawmaker
Pennsylvania State Rep. Russ Diamond of Lebanon sounds off to Fox News Digital regarding a planned rewrite of the state health code Monday that he says give police powers to bureaucrats.
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Pennsylvania lawmakers are warning that proposed changes to the state’s public health rules could usher in “COVID 2.0,” giving health officials sweeping “police power” over residents during future disease outbreaks.
Lawmakers opposing Pennsylvania’s planned 502-page rewrite of state health code rules are urging the public to submit comments before the deadline, warning the proposal could serve as a roadmap to unfettered and intrusive restrictions and surveillance efforts, including the reported ability for agency representatives to enter private homes.
“This absolutely is COVID 2.0, but it’s even worse because [Governor] Josh Shapiro is trying to circumnavigate or skirt the constitutional provision that we the people in Pennsylvania voted to take that kind of power away from the governor,” said state Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon, who is leading the charge against the policy changes.
“We were the only state in the nation to reduce our governor’s powers by a constitutional amendment after COVID,” Diamond said, adding that “surveillance, segregation and quarantine” are areas being assessed.
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Demonstrators protest Pennsylvania’s COVID lockdown policies during the pandemic.(Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images)
Pennsylvania voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2021 limiting the duration of a governor’s disaster declaration to 21 days unless extended by the General Assembly. Those emergency powers played a central role in then-Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide mitigation orders.
In the 502-page proposed Regulation 10-242, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, the Pennsylvania Department of Health proposes expanding the list of reportable diseases, infections and conditions and updating the rules to reflect changing expert standards. “The Department proposes to add language in this subsection, indicating that the Department or a local health authority may enter an apartment, a building, a health care facility, a school, college or university, or other location as necessary to conduct its investigation under 208 this chapter,” one provision highlighted by critics reads.
“I don’t think that we want a very left-leaning governor with his Department of Health and their henchmen having this kind of police power in Pennsylvania,” Diamond said.
A spokesperson for Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen — who led the Pittsburgh area’s COVID mitigation response — said Shapiro “did not personally propose” the updates and rejected critics’ characterizations.
“Any misconstruing of these proposed changes designed to scare Pennsylvanians is inaccurate and disingenuous,” Neil Ruhland told Fox News Digital.
A Shapiro spokesperson also responded to criticism Wednesday, saying the governor’s philosophy is that “public health depends on trust” and emphasizing that the proposed health regulations are part of a larger effort to update about 200 regulatory areas across state agencies.
Lapowsky told Fox News Digital that the public, stakeholders, independent regulators and the legislature can review and respond to the proposed changes.
“Once public comment concludes later this month, [Shapiro] will weigh in, and the regulations will be revised accordingly,” she said.
Lapowsky said Shapiro’s emphasis on public trust includes respecting parental rights. Critics say the proposed regulations could give health officials greater authority over certain disease-control measures involving children, including masking. Lapowsky added that the governor believes “government should work closely with the people it serves.”
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Ruhland said the Pennsylvania Department of Health began analyzing and proposing regulatory updates several years ago and that the regulations in question are 25 years old and need modernization to “better support evolving public health needs and manage dangerous disease.”
While the proposed regulations do not themselves enact a new mask mandate, they would broaden disease-control language beyond “surveillance,” a term central to litigation over Pennsylvania’s statewide school masking order during the pandemic.
Pennsylvania House Minority Leader Jesse Topper told Fox News Digital that although the proposed regulations directly affect Pennsylvania, Americans elsewhere should also pay attention.
“Everybody in the United States was impacted by COVID one way or another,” said Topper, R-McConnellsburg.
“We were one of the worst locked-down states in the entire nation. And we had one of the worst death rates from COVID… We don’t want unelected bureaucrats making those decisions. We need to follow the Commonwealth Constitution, which says, ‘Hey, you can declare a public health disaster emergency if you want. But after 21 days, the legislature gets to say whether you can continue that or not’.”
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a re-election campaign kickoff event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.(Rachel Wisniewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, who, along with Diamond, led demonstrations against lockdown policies during COVID, told Fox News Digital that the proposed regulations are an “end-round” around voters.
“Pennsylvania endured enough government overreach during COVID. We will not go back,” said Mastriano, whom President Donald Trump nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia.
Jason Richey, an attorney and the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, also dubbed the changes “COVID 2.0.”
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State Rep. Russ Diamond leads a COVID-19 anti-lockdown demonstration at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg.(Reuters Connect Partner/Reuters)
“These are even worse than the COVID rules… [DOH] can look at your medical records. They can enter any building and go in without a warrant to do an investigation. They can even take your kid from school and talk to him privately without your consent,” Richey said in a video recorded outside a Pennsylvania Department of Health office in Lehigh County last week.
Beyond the public health implications, Topper said he is concerned that the proposed regulations would expand government authority.
Topper and Ruhland both encouraged Pennsylvanians to submit feedback on the proposed regulations before Monday’s public-comment deadline.
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