QUESTION
How are vaccines tracked for adults in New York City?
0:34:21
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Vaccines for individuals over 18 in New York City require patient consent to be reported, differing from the mandate for reporting vaccinations in children.
- Vaccines administered to individuals 18 and under must be reported to the Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR).
- Adults must provide consent for their vaccination records to be included in the CIR.
- There is no requirement for adult vaccinations to be reported to the CIR without patient consent.
- Adults can track their vaccination records through 'my vaccine record' if their provider reports to the CIR and they have given consent.
- Tracking of adult vaccine doses is limited due to the consent requirement, affecting the ability to recall patients without vaccination records.
Darlene Mealy
0:34:21
So so who is tracking the if someone hasn't had it in a while, which well, the city Yeah.
Dr. Celia Quinn
0:34:32
I really appreciate that question.
0:34:33
So like I mentioned, vaccines that are administered to people 18 and under have to be reported to the CIR.
0:34:39
But in order for vaccines given to people older than 18 to be reported, the patient has to provide consent to provider and there's no requirement for those vaccines for adults to be reported into CIR.
0:34:52
Some are Again, an interesting experiment would be for people to go to my vaccine record and see if you have anything in CIR.
0:35:00
If you have given if you have given consent in your providers is reporting to CI your adult doses, then now you can track your own vaccine record through your whole life, which would be really helpful for you.
0:35:10
Anyway, so that is a limitation in terms of CIR and our ability to track adult doses, but that would have to happen at the provider level for them to identifying recall patients where they don't have a record of them having