America’s low-tech vaccine rollout
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The Big Idea
THE VACCINE ROLLOUT S NEW TECH HURDLE: The coronavirus vaccine drive is in disarray and there’s another challenge not garnering a lot of attention: getting patients to take their second shot.
In many cases, the solution is surprisingly low-tech: just a piece of paper to remind people to get their booster three or four weeks later, depending on the shot.
Millions of patients will need to receive their second dose in the coming weeks. But getting patients to the second stage of any medical process is highly difficult, warned Mark Fendrick, a University of Michigan doctor