The v-safe after vaccination health checker: Active vaccine safety monitoring during CDC's COVID-19 pandemic response.

ABSTRACT: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed and implemented the v-safe after vaccination health checker (v-safe) to monitor COVID-19 vaccine safety and as an active surveillance supplement to existing CDC vaccine safety monitoring programs. V-safe allows persons who received COVID-19 vaccines to report on post-vaccination experiences and how symptoms affected their health at daily, weekly, and monthly timepoints after vaccination. Text message reminders are sent linking to Internet-based health check-in surveys. Surveys include questions to identify v-safe participants who may be eligible to enroll in a separate pregnancy registry activity that evaluates maternal and infant outcomes in those pregnant at the time of vaccination or receiving vaccine in the periconception p

SUBMITTER: Myers TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9870038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature