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Jon Swartz from marketwatch said that The tech industry is throwing its considerable resources into helping get vaccines to millions of Americans amid an alarming upward spiral in COVID-19 cases.
From Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.66% in Seattle to International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -1.77% in Armonk, N.Y., tech companies nationwide are offering expertise in tackling a logistical task that some compared with the moon landing.
“This is the biggest data puzzle of our lifetime,” requiring collaboration among tech companies and with federal and state authorities, Jason Kelley, general manager of blockchain services at IBM, told MarketWatch. “This is a team sport.”
For tech, vaccine distribution presents an opportunity and a challenge. The industry sees a chance to burnish its credentials while fulfilling an urgent societal need, amid criticism for failing to pursue big projects that profoundly improve people’s lives. But the ambitious deployment comes fraught with risks, as illustrated by potential security breaches in open-access systems, botched scheduling and some fraudulent accounts.
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