He added, “We will not be reporting name, ZIP code, race, ethnicity or address.”In the United States, collecting immunization data has been a purely state-by-state effort. Lawyers for the state tried to amend the C.D.C.’s data use agreement, but its changes were rejected and Pennsylvania signed anyway, state officials said. Four organizations representing state health officials — including the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the Association of Immunization Managers — sent a letter to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the C.D.C. During the Clinton administration, Dr. Orenstein said, he argued against a federal vaccine registry, against his own interests. Call for Data on Vaccine Recipients Raises Alarm Over Privacy appeared first on New York Times.
