U.S. CDC Surveillance Program Allows Government To Track Unvaccinated People

Foreign media comprehensively reported that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has planned and actively tracking people who are unvaccinated against the CCP-virus (COVID-19).

 According to the report, during September 14th to 15th in 2021, federal government’s ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee(C&M) exposed on a virtual meeting that CDC will launch a new program to track unvaccinated people whenever they go to hospital. The committee includes representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. During this meeting, C&M discussed the implementation of new categories of ICD-10 codes to mark people as “Unvaccinated for COVID-19,” “Partially Vaccinated for COVID-19,” and “Other under-immunization status”. The ICD-10 coding system was first created by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is used by doctors every day to categorize different types of patients. These codes are routinely used by health insurance companies for billing purposes, and are maintained by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. There is another ICD-10CM coding within the ICD-10 coding system. The “CM” specially refers to people who are unvaccinated or partly unvaccinated against the CCP-virus.

 According to a document published on the CMS federal government website, the new tracking codes for the unvaccinated and the partially vaccinated started planning in September 2021, being approved 2 months later, and started being used in April 2022. Dr. David Berglund, a staffer of ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee, said to medias that CDC won’t forbid the use of these codes at current time.