CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by stefan_ on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:26PM (#25975564)

When did we have the last nationwide vaccination campaign, whats the "legacy"? Pretty sure that was when IBM still made tabulators.

I think you will find that if only there was someone in charge to put their foot down, you can do without a whole lot of these things. But that's part of the problem of course: the government contracting out is just a bunch of clueless people making up a wish list with a partner on the other side whose only inclination is to say yes to everything.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by nojito on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:45PM (#25975685)

The data flows into legacy systems like VAERS

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by mrzimmerman on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:24AM (#25976564)

You’re actually saying it costs millions to hand off data to a legacy system? A system that has probably had to consume something like XML or JSON in the last 20 years?

There is no excuse for this kind of cost for things as simple as tracking g appointments and completions regardless of data transformations and storage. There are no magical new protocols or data formats it’s using, it’s just a lot of people charging too much for them to have week long meetings to talk about their area of expertise. It’s an embarrassment.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by stefan_ on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:48PM (#25975702)

Have you seen the vaccination setups? It's just car queues! I'm sure nothing there "flows" without a whole lot of manual data entry.

So now what, you are reporting this adverse event to VAMS who reports it to VAERS? There is no flow, it's all just duplicate effort from architecture astronauts.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by afavour on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:27PM (#25975951)

Huh? States have lists of eligible vaccination recipients that they reach out to. It’s very much not just keeping track of a line of cars.

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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by ashtonkem on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:11PM (#25975845)

Vaccinating a whole country is a hell of a lot more complicated than just car queues.

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