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Gov’s order makes COVID vaccine registry mandatory

Governor Chris Sununu last week signed an executive order requiring everyone who receives a COVID-19 vaccine to have their immunizations registered with the state.

New Hampshire has been the only state without a vaccine registry, a list of who has received which vaccines. Though state law directed the Department of Health and Human Services to create the registry years ago, the state only began building the registry this year.

Sununu’s executive order will require health care providers to report every COVID-19 vaccine, suspending a part of the state vaccine registry law that allows patients to opt out of registering vaccines.

But the order will allow patients to have their immunization records removed from the registry after the pandemic is over.

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Zombie Preparedness

Wonder why zombies, zombie apocalypse, and zombie preparedness continue to live or walk dead on a CDC web site? As it turns out what first began as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to be a very effective platform. We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via “zombie preparedness”.

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Election Night Errors, How Do You Get Negative Votes

A video has been produced to ask a few very basic questions.  As the tabulations of vote counting is automatically updated to central databases for distribution to media, how do vote counts turn negative?  Errors can be made, but why are all the ‘errors’ going in only one direction.  Vote tabulations should be additive, why are vote totals decreasing?

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