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Law's Sharona Hoffman discusses bill to create a better vaccination tracking database

MEDIA | March 18, 2022
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Attack that calls GOP House member a socialist is wrong that a bill would create a tracking database: False

Professor Sharona Hoffman

PolitiFact: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, debunked the characterization of a federal bill seeking authorization of $400 million in grants to state and local health departments to update their computer databases of immunization records. It would not create a database or registry, Hoffman said.