Not a problem, the logistics of this just fascinates me. Whether it be, what's your trusted source to verify that the vaccine(s) were done to handling potential boosters and everything in-between.
It looks like there's some disconnect on how the data is being sent back upstream and it's handled in one of three ways
Further info states that the
COVID-19 Data Clearinghouse is a cloud-hosted data repository that receives, deduplicates, and deidentifies COVID-19 vaccination data, which are then used to populate the Immunization (IZ) Data Lake with deidentified data. For those that want to know more about Data Lake you can read up on it here
https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/datalakes-and-analytics/what-is-a-data-lake/
For those that want to quick, down and dirty version.
Amazon Web Services is holding all this information in a giant database (probably in their govcloud account
https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/). And running all the analytics on it. This lets them see trends, doses, and all the fun logistical stuff that needs to be addressed. Really cool stuff like query off of how many people age 18-35 in ZipCode 32830 have had at least one dose
So in theory, this data SHOULD be somewhere. The problem right now is, how do you get access to it? Will the government share this data? And what security implications are there when and if they decide to have some sort of 'vaccine passport'. And the biggest kicker is the phrase 'deidentifies'. I'll assume they're taking this data in and then doing something like: Get the user's Social+Name+DOB and jumble that into a unique identifier. Then drop the SSN and Name from the info. Now you know people have had them, but don't know everything about them.....Needless to say this is a hard problem to tackle
I could go on for hours about this stuff. So I'll stop now before I bore everyone to death