<div dir="ltr">tkx.<br clear="all"><div><img width="0" height="0" class="chq-track-image" alt="" style="display:flex; border: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px" src="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/mail/9f8f17004b52c8779c_1613946599058?uid=226430"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>============================================<br>Tom Johnson - <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/9f8f17004b52c8779c_1613946599058?uid=226430&url=mailto%3Atom%40jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<br>505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/9f8f17004b52c8779c_1613946599058?uid=226430&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnmfog.org" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0b5394">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br><b><font color="#0000ff">Check out <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/9f8f17004b52c8779c_1613946599058?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FIts-The-Peoples-Data%2F1599854626919671" target="_blank">It's The People's Data</a></font></b> </div><div>============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div><img width="1" height="1" id="shtracking_1s2" src="https://tc2.shftrk.com/e/keZ9DN3XxJWdmW5r/5jpvMy1zmrk8G1BY/mxGkn85KGR4dXZvj" alt=" " style="display:none"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 3:15 PM Chris Feola <<a href="mailto:chris@feola.com">chris@feola.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] My View: "What's in your COVID-19 vaccination number?"</p>
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<span style="font-size:31.5pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">What's in your COVID-19 vaccination number?<u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Surely you too have heard many anecdotes of New Mexicans over 70 or 75, and maybe younger, who have driven to Amarillo or southern Colorado in pursuit of COVID-19 vaccinations.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">We don’t know how many of those vaccine tourists registered early on at the New Mexico Department of Health site, <a href="http://cvaccine.nmhealth.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(37,84,161)">cvaccine.nmhealth.org</span></a>,
to get a magic code number apparently used to get in the queue for a shot or shots. We also don’t know what that seven-digit number means.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">You probably have a Social Security number. The three groups in that number each have separate definitions. For example, the first three digits reflect the state in which the individual
first applied for a Social Security card. But who can tell us the definition of the COVID-19 registration?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Can anyone please tell us if that is simply a randomly generated number or if any single digit or combination of digits represents a specific piece of information being used by the health
department? For example, do the first two digits mean an individual is in category 1A or 1B, etc. Do other digits indicate any other metadata relevant to the individual?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Second, we might assume the digits are being used as some sort of index number in the statewide data set. Hence, it falls somewhere in a queue for scheduled vaccinations. If so, why isn’t
it being used to tell individuals (a) how many peers are in a particular class (assuming a random distribution of our fellows for vaccination) awaiting vaccinations or (b) where do we fall in the list, i.e. how many individuals in our class or each class are
ahead of us for vaccination(s)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This is an example of a classic failure of government employees to think that data like COVID-19 registration numbers belong to their specific departments instead of the taxpayers who
paid to have the registration system set up. Especially in crisis cases like the pandemic, agency planners must start thinking, initially, how to make the data — our data — “public facing.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">That is, the planning and implementation must be done on parallel tracks: Create a system that maximizes information for the public while also meeting the needs of the agency’s goals and
personnel. Yes, actual and anticipated supply of the little glass vials is an issue. But if <a href="http://kroger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(37,84,161)">Kroger.com</span></a> in Colorado can administer a registration system that is specific yet simple to use,
shouldn’t our health department have similar capabilities?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">If you go to the state’s vaccination site, you should be easily and quickly told if you need to gas up the car for a road trip east or north.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Tom Johnson is the coordinator of It’s The People’s Data, Santa Fe.</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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