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Data Failures Keep the CDC From Seeing the Whole Picture on Covid
Repeated lapses fuel bipartisan calls for an overhaul of the agency.
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A year into the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, the U.S. government still faces data shortcomings that cloud its vision of who’s getting vaccinated and at what rate.
The record-time development of the shots was a (mostly) American triumph. Now vaccines are plentiful in the U.S. and offer meaningful protection for those who get them. But in another way the U.S. has lagged. America’s public-health authorities have struggled to monitor the rollout of vaccines and to track data on how effective they are.