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Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise Safety systems will likely get more reports than usual this year Share this story Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images With the launch of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, officials expect to see a surge in the number of potential bad vaccine reactions. Their job will be to find out how real those reactions are finding a signal in the noise. If previous vaccine reports are a guide, the vast majority of the reports won’t end up being real safety issues. But federal officials encourage physicians, especially those who don’t usually give vaccines, to tell the programs about any hint of an issue because they want to make sure they know about and thoroughly investigate everything. ....
COVID-19 vaccine monitoring program limited to English speakers Other languages will be available ‘fairly shortly,’ CDC says Share this story Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images A text message program designed to track side effects in COVID-19 vaccine recipients is currently only available in English, which could limit the data it is able to collect. The program, called v-safe, is one way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will follow up with people who take the vaccine. It was rolled out with the first wave of vaccinations last week. “When you’re talking about technology, literacy and language are usually second tier,” says Jorge Rodriguez, a health technology equity researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “Version one is English-speaking, and the Spanish version will come later, the Mandarin version will come later.” ....