Meanwhile, every state will tell you how many shots were given this week, and where they stand with percent vaccinated.
If only if it were that simple. Many challenges have plagued state and local health department efforts to collect, track and report vaccinations. Some problems have been fixed, but others will require more work. Here’s a sampling:
"The New Hampshire vaccine dashboard shows 61.1% of residents are at least partly vaccinated, but the state is not counting all people who get their shots in pharmacies due to data collection issues, said Jake Leon, spokesperson for the state Department of Health and Human Services."
https://khn.org/news/article/cdc-senior-covid-vaccination-rates-appear-inflated/“Both the city and state track vaccinations closely and regularly report those data. The problem is their systems don’t automatically link up for people who get doses in and out of the city. So, for instance, someone who got the first two doses in Montgomery County, but got a booster in Philadelphia, is not counted by the state as being boosted and is counted by the city as having only one dose. The opposite is true for someone who originally got vaccinated in Philadelphia and then was boosted outside the city.”
https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-booster-data-philadelphia-pa-20211211.html“In contrast to these automated systems, Utah County is stuck entering records manually one at a time, a process that involves some 30 people laboring on the data on days vaccines are administered. Members of the National Guard have started helping the county with data entry, and Tolman-Hill said that officials are working on finding ways to automate some of the grunt work, including scanning.”
https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/29/covid19-vaccination-data-tracking-disparities/records.
“Health officials are unable to accurately track the number of vaccines administered in several states because of a reporting issue between pharmacies and state databases, CDC officials confirmed to McClatchy. Georgia is one of the states affected by the error. A state health department data team discovered the state’s shots were undercounted because site locations were not entered in electronic health records after a vaccine dose was administered through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. The shot would be incorrectly credited as a dose administered in the pharmacy company’s home state instead of the state where the shot was actually given, a state health department spokesperson told McClatchy.”
https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/coronavirus/article250061644.html“Hawaii health officials had to revise the state's coronavirus vaccination rate after providers counted booster shots as first doses. The percentage of residents who received at least one dose was lower than previously reported and the number booster shots given is higher, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/hawaii/articles/2021-11-30/hawaii-corrects-vaccination-rates-after-booster-report-error"There's been an error in the number of vaccinations reported to the federal reporting system. The state of Kentucky says one major pharmacy, which is still unnamed, has accidentally been reporting numbers in two separate systems. That means the data Health Director Billy Pitts and the Marshall County Health Department have for vaccinations aren't correct at the moment."
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/vaccine-numbers-in-kentucky-miscalculated-after-reporting-error-from-unnamed-pharmacy/article_976cd2ae-32dc-11ec-8c33-0b6c053ee879.html
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