RALEIGH, N.C. — The state Department of Health and Human Services is setting up an online system to track the distribution of coronavirus vaccine across North Carolina as soon as vaccines become available.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Management System, or CVMS, will both allow state health officials to monitor vaccine inventory and allow the public to set up appointments to get vaccinated.
“Every stakeholder in the whole food chain, if you will, will have access to the same real-time information,” DHHS Deputy Secretary Sam Gibbs said Tuesday.
CVMS is set to go live Dec. 9 – one day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could grant emergency use authorization to Pfizer for its vaccine candidate.
Gibbs said the system will improve communication between the state, storage facilities and medical providers, allowing officials to see how much vaccine is delivered to North Carolina, how much is in storage, where it’s being shipped and where the vaccine is running low.
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