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Convoluted IT systems slowing vaccine rollout
The problem: The process for sharing data about COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a convoluted Rube Goldberg machine and it’s slowing down the vaccine campaign.
The background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists six different software systems