Healthcare IT News November 17, 2020
At the American Medical Informatics Association virtual annual symposium this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci raised the possibility of registries to track which patients had received which vaccine doses.
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that, although the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine is heartening, the recent news from Pfizer and Moderna shouldn’t mean a relaxation of vigilance over the coming weeks.
“The cavalry is coming, but the cavalry is not here yet,” Fauci said at the American Medical Informatics Association virtual annual symposium.
“What we should do is we should make the hope of a vaccine motivate us even more to be very, very stringent and very, very attentive to fundamental, simple, doable public health measures,”...