I’m gonna respectfully disagree with the government doesn’t have a data base. They do. It’s called VAMS - vaccine admin mgmt system- and its managed by the CDC. Every state health dept reports covid vaccines in this system. Every healthcare system, pharmacy etc is reporting the personal info for those taking the covid vaccine. I know bc I’ve used it. Look it up. They are keeping track. It’s scary.
States can record identifying information. HOWEVER, it is illegal for them to pass that identifying information on to the Federal Government.
Most of the State databases have opt-out procedures.
There was an article about this “problem” in the WSJ not to long ago, with the implication that the “EVVVVIIIILLLLL” Republicans were blocking this “commonsense” legislation.
Apparently only 9 States are even using VAMS: