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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Will they be keeping track of people getting their booster shots, as well? [/b]What about people who missed the second shot? Is there any point, since vaccinated people can still get and spread covid-19 to other people? Life is going back to normal whether you like it or not, for people who got a vaccine and those who did not. [/quote]

Yes. Every state has an "Immunization Information System," and all vaccinations within the state are tracked and can be accessed online by authorized people who have accounts (and this is not limited to medical providers). It takes less than a minute to log in and access records for someone, if you have name and date of birth.

If this becomes relevant to controlling spread, it would be very easy to portal each state's IIS info into a single federal system. I haven't heard anything about that happening, but there are not many logistical barriers to doing it. There are political ones, and those would be counterbalanced (or not) by public health interests.[/quote]

[b]No, all states haven’t been doing that[/b][/quote]

Can you cite one that hasn't? I'd like to look further into that for work reasons. Thanks.[/quote]

The below makes reference to it. Essentially it’s a hodgepodge of different methods across states and some states don’t maintain up to do or central repositories. A record should I’m theory be somewhere but you probably will not be able to get access to it for verification purposes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccination-cards-are-the-only-proof-of-shots-soon-an-essential-11617105602
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Thanks for the link, but a vague reference to a "incomplete patchwork" is not naming a state. Interestingly, the article you cite does not reference contacting any state IIS's directly, as far as I can see. There is a note that it took work to deal with the catchup and lag time, but note they were able to do so -- which means a record was tracked, just not necessarily available online *yet.*

[quote]Mr. Bali said when the company took over vaccinations in certain sites late January, they found no official record had been entered into the state database for 20% of patients.

“We had to chase tens of thousands of patients to understand what had happened; it took us a month to clean it up,” he said.[/quote]

This will take money and manpower, but the various state projects can be funded and staffed, if there is need and will. We aren't there yet, but we could get there. And it's not going to be starting from scratch.

Again, name me a state, and I can tell you where they are at with this. It's part of my job.[/quote]

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