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We should use blockchain to track vaccines against COVID-19

In the debate on actions aimed at combating the new coronavirus, only one thing is certain: only a massive vaccination of the population will be able, with the necessary effectiveness that the current health crisis requires, to stop the COVID-19 pandemic.

This vaccination effort never seen by mankind will demand that the billions of doses that will be produced globally be distributed through a supply chain that has an efficiency never seen before.

It is also important to remember: we never need to vaccinate so many in such a short time.

In addition, since vaccination campaigns started in some countries (among them Brazil), we were treated to news showing that some people, such as politicians and businessmen, would be “skipping the line” in the vaccination calendar – much to the surprise of a total of zero people.

To give a slight example of people’s creative ability, in Canada, a businessman and his wife chartered a plane in Vancouver and ended up in Beaver Creek (more than 2,500 km away) to lie and say that they worked at a local motel.

How the blockchain protocol can help

One of the characteristics of a good and reliable distribution chain is its ability to monitor all its stages and processes, as well as to keep the data that circulates in it intact and transparent.

In this sense, the blockchain protocol’s ability to track all the data that is exchanged on its network gives the vaccine distribution chain a capability that allows anyone to see the dose path.

Thus, not only the professionals involved in the application of the drug will be able to track that vaccine, but the governments that bought these thousands of doses.

Often, governments have bought two or more types of vaccine. Thus, the blockchain protocol also allows states to be able to monitor – in real time – the production and delivery of these doses.

Thus, a vaccine distribution chain based on blockchain allows, for example, that the Secretaries of Health can manage, with greater accuracy, the distribution of doses in their territories.

Likewise, the countries that contracted the vaccines will have – within a few clicks – information on how many doses a certain manufacturer is delivering to its citizens.

Loss control and counterfeiting

With real-time control, governments and the entire state bureaucracy can also measure whether any application site is missing more doses than the average for an entire area.

Thus, with effective waste control, more individuals will be vaccinated.

Furthermore, in the event that we have confirmed the acquisition of vaccines directly by people – which, to date, does not yet exist in the world – we cannot doubt, for example, the ability of some soulless being to fake the product to be sold .

In this perspective, again, the ability of the blockchain protocol to track all the data that is exchanged on its network will allow consumers to be able to verify the path of the vaccine they are acquiring.

Third party control

Finally, the wide access to data recorded on blockchain, coupled with the immutability characteristic of the protocol, allows any citizen, as well as the press in its role of overseeing the public authorities, to know who was vaccinated and when it was vaccinated.

In this way, once the application of a dose on blockchain is registered, eventual “queue breakers” will be discovered in a few clicks – as well as, exposed and, if necessary, processed.

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