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Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Tracker could remain online as an archive for researchers or anyone who wants to look through pandemic data, said Marconnet, or it could adapt to track other data that Alabamians find interesting. “I’ve been playing with some ideas there, and I’ve had some struggles figuring out what people would care about,” Marconnet said. “I don’t have an answer there. We’ll just sort of see.” The software developer from Huntsville didn’t have any idea what his side project would become when
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Tennessee state officials said the investigation into Shelby County s wasted COVID-19 vaccine doses and the storing of other vaccines is now finished. The state is confident no one was given an expired vaccine dose.
Tennessee State Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also finalized a report on vaccine stability that was provided to state and county officials confirming what Piercey said.
“We can confidently reassure all recipients of vaccine at Shelby County sites the doses they received were stable and effective,” she said in a media briefing Monday.
However, other problems reported by state officials remain unresolved including the apparent vaccination of two children and the alleged theft of vaccine from the Pipkin Building vaccination site.
Piercey said the state, working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Pfizer, are looking under every rock and trying to determine whether someone was given a dose that thawed too long or if there are doses the state, Pfizer, and CDC aren t sure about. On the surface, no one was given an expired product at a site. We re pretty confident of that because we know that these doses that expired if that s the term we re using, expired in the pharmacy, Piercey said.
But what the state is looking into is the cold chain the chain of custody and its temperature throughout the chain to determine whether doses were held at the proper temperature before being given to people.