At midweek this week, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has transitioned its COVID-19 vaccine dashboard to a new methodology to more clearly and simply summarize vaccination data reporting to the residents of the state.
MDHHS Director Elizabeth Hertel says, “Since we started vaccinating Michiganders, we have had the opportunity to improve our data systems and evolve processes,” and adds, “We continue to seek ways to improve the quality and accuracy of data shared within the COVID-19 dashboard. Over 5.5 million Michiganders have received at least their first dose of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine as we work to reach our goal of vaccinating 70-percent of Michiganders age 16 and older.” The dashboard currently shows that in Berrien County through yesterday, April 15th, a total of 115,585 combined doses have been delivered.
Starting this past Wednesday, April 14th, the dashboard now reflects the following improvements:
- Show the date the vaccine(s) are delivered to providers.
- This makes it easier to understand where vaccines are located and how quickly they are being administered.
- Show the number of doses delivered by both state providers and federal programs within the state (previously the data showed only the deliveries from the state’s allocations).
- Users of the dashboard will see the date, quantity and location of all doses delivered to state-enrolled partners and federal program participants.
- Data can be filtered by state and federal distribution.
- The number of doses administered will look slightly different.
- An improved deduplication method will show a more accurate description of the number of first and second doses administered.
- The updated dataset will also include more precise address information, which may cause a variation in total number of doses administered within each county, local health department jurisdiction and preparedness region.
All updates will be reflected in public use data sets, and provider data will not change.
Additionally, if a Michigan resident has received a COVID-19 vaccination out-of-state, they can share that information with their provider for entry into the state’s database.
Michigan residents seeking more information about the COVID-19 vaccine can visit online at: http://Michigan.gov/COVIDvaccine. Information around this outbreak is changing rapidly. The latest information is available at http://Michigan.gov/Coronavirus and http://CDC.gov/Coronavirus.
The screenshot accompanying this story on Moody on the Market is slide 7 of the 11 slide series available to the public at the COVID Vaccine Dashboard which can be found at the link below:
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214-547150–,00.html
