Where’s the COVID-19 vaccine? Who’s been vaccinated? Here s how we ll know.
Data on patients and vaccine shipments will flow through a complex network of state and federal data systems. How will it all work?
Aleszu Bajak and Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY
Published
3:31 pm UTC Dec. 17, 2020
Tracking who’s been immunized against COVID-19 and where people can find vaccines to take tasks considered crucial to wiping out the virus will be a massive and complex undertaking.
A jumble of interconnected state and federal databases will make it work. Their names range from the bland to the mysterious, and their vintage ranges from first-generation apps to ancient code written for mainframe computers.