Pennsylvania Lowers Vaccination Numbers Due to Duplication

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About 600,000 duplicate vaccination shots were cut Saturday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health COVID-19 vaccination statistic dashboard, writes Keith Mayer for the Reading Eagle.

The new figures “more accurately reflect the number of people who are partially and fully vaccinated.”

The cleanup involved about 5 percent of the state population.

For weeks, some county officials have been suggesting there was double counting errors in the state reporting system.

“Over the past couple of months DOH has dedicated 30 staff to continuously improve data integrity,” said Barry Ciccocioppo, the PA health department’s communications director.

That included removing duplicated data from:

  • Some software that did not include a unique patient identifier.
  • Providers uploading duplicative data.
  • People getting first and second doses from different providers.

The updated data still shows an upward trend that more Pennsylvanians are getting fully vaccinated, he said.

The bulk of the duplication seems to be in Allegheny, Montgomery and Chester Counties.

Each of those counties hhad vaccination statistics reduced by about 100,000.

The latest vaccination rates for Delaware County as of Saturday show 59.6 percent of residents have at least one vaccine dose. There are 53.5 percent that are fully vaccinated.  

Read more at the Reading Eagle about the change in state vaccination statistics.

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