Why OIG Did This Review. Successful national vaccination campaigns and routine vaccination efforts depend on complete and timely vaccination data being available to State and local immunization programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relies on State and local immunization programs to monitor vaccination coverage and to plan strategies to increase uptake among communities with low coverage. To fulfill this important role, immunization programs need complete and accurate individual-level vaccination data from all providers. Comprehensive data are important for State and local immunization programs; however, two key types of providers are not required to submit individual-level data to immunization programs’ databases: Federal agencies and retail pharmacies that partner with the Federal government. Combined, these two types of providers have already administered over 250 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. How OIG Did This Review. In December 2021, we administered a survey to 56 State and local immunization programs that have immunization databases. We asked immunization programs whether they receive COVID-19 vaccination data from Federal agencies and retail pharmacy partners; whether they experience challenges in obtaining complete and accurate data; and how these challenges impact their vaccination campaigns, if at all.
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