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WASHINGTON The federal government needs to make it easier for community health centers and other vaccine distribution locations to report on how many vaccines they have distributed, Lathran Woodard told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on the coronavirus crisis. We re having provider burnout because of the hassle of having to individually enter each vaccine, Woodard, who is board chairman of the National Association of Community Health Centers, said at a briefing Friday on ensuring equity in coronavirus vaccinations. The flip side is we re getting less vaccine supplies because vaccine suppliers base their next shipment on how many vaccines a particular facility has already distributed, and the slow manual entry process means that facilities are appearing to distribute far fewer vaccines than they actually have administered.