CDC To Deploy Smartphone App, V-SAFE, For Tracking COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to release V-SAFE, a new smartphone-based application to track side effects of vaccines aimed at preventing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID). The goal is to detect whether COVID-19 vaccines cause any serious side effects once they are approved for widespread use.

V-SAFE facilitates daily symptom surveys as well as text messages to check in with vaccine recipients about how they are feeling. It will provide telephone follow up to anyone who reports medically significant adverse events. The surveys will be sent to anyone who provides contact . . .