Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2020
Governments will want to track who has had a COVID-19 vaccine
10 December 2020 - Rollout of new shots highlights gaps in countries’ monitoring of who gets inoculated.
As they prepare to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, governments world-wide are grappling with how to keep track of those who have been immunised.
Many developed countries maintain lists of who has received vaccines, but those registries can rely on incomplete data provided voluntarily by doctors, pharmacies and even health-care providers that distribute flu shots to corporate clients in winter. The U.S. doesn’t have a national database, but states and some localities maintain their own.
