Monitoring and reporting the US COVID-19 vaccination effort

Lynn Gibbs Scharf; Kafayat Adeniyi; Emily Augustini; Deborah Boyd; Laura Corvin; Roua El Kalach; Hannah Fast; Janet Fath; LaTreace Harris; Danielle Henderson; Jan Hicks-Thomson; Nkenge Jones-Jack; Amanda Kellerman; Agha Nabeel Khan; Sunanda Shu McGarvey; Jennifer E McGehee; Christine E Miner; Lori B Moore; Bhavini Patel Murthy; Stuart Myerburg; Elizabeth Neuhaus; Kimvy Nguyen; Melody Parker; Susan Pierce-Richards; David Samchok; Lauren K Shaw; Samantha Spoto; Arunkumar Srinivasan; Carla Stearle; Jacob Thomas; Mark Winarsky; Elizabeth Zell

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.005

Monitoring and reporting the US COVID-19 vaccination effort

Vaccine. 2023 Dec 13:S0264-410X(23)01438-X. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.005. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Lynn Gibbs Scharf¹, Kafayat Adeniyi², Emily Augustini³, Deborah Boyd⁴, Laura Corvin³, Roua El Kalach², Hannah Fast², Janet Fath², LaTreace Harris², Danielle Henderson², Jan Hicks-Thomson², Nkenge Jones-Jack², Amanda Kellerman², Agha Nabeel Khan², Sunanda Shu McGarvey⁴, Jennifer E McGehee², Christine E Miner², Lori B Moore², Bhavini Patel Murthy², Stuart Myerburg², Elizabeth Neuhaus², Kimvy Nguyen⁴, Melody Parker², Susan Pierce-Richards², David Samchok², Lauren K Shaw², Samantha Spoto³, Arunkumar Srinivasan², Carla Stearle², Jacob Thomas⁴, Mark Winarsky², Elizabeth Zell⁵

Affiliations

¹ Vaccine Task Force, COVID Response Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States. Electronic address: lig1@cdc.gov.
² Vaccine Task Force, COVID Response Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ JMichael Consulting, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Roswell, GA, United States.
⁴ Peraton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Reston, VA, United States.
⁵ Peraton, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Reston, VA, United States; Never Ending Technology, Contractor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Huntsville, AL, United States.

PMID: 38097453
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.005

Abstract

Immunizations are an important tool to reduce the burden of vaccine preventable diseases and improve population health.¹ High-quality immunization data is essential to inform clinical and public health interventions and respond to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. To track COVID-19 vaccines and vaccinations, CDC established an integrated network that included vaccination provider systems, health information exchange systems, immunization information systems, pharmacy and dialysis systems, vaccine ordering systems, electronic health records, and tools to support mass vaccination clinics. All these systems reported data to CDC's COVID-19 response system (either directly or indirectly) where it was processed, analyzed, and disseminated. This unprecedented vaccine tracking effort provided essential information for public health officials that was used to monitor the COVID-19 response and guide decisions. This paper will describe systems, processes, and policies that enabled monitoring and reporting of COVID-19 vaccination efforts and share challenges and lessons learned for future public health emergency responses.

Keywords: COVID-19; Immunization; Informatics; Public health emergency response; Public health surveillance; Vaccine administration.

Published by Elsevier Ltd.