Thread by @patio11

Here's what VaccinateCA.com got done on Day 9 to help more Californians quickly find the coronavirus vaccine where it is actually accessible.

* Medical professionals at ~20 locations told us they had the coronavirus vaccine. We wrote down what they said and published.

* We completed all work required to have professionals call approximately 40 medical professionals an hour on Monday looking for the coronavirus vaccine. We'll write down what they say, too. This is "committed" call capacity; it doesn't fluctuate as much as our volunteers do.

* We are putting finishing touches on a method of pre-screening lead lists (e.g. "a list of all the pharmacies in the state of California") into highly-likely-to-have-the-vaccine and not-very-likely sublists, without human intervention.

This is really important for efficiency.

Why? Suppose I told you that about 90% of the pharmacies on list A have the covid vaccine in stock and about 10% of the pharmacies on list B have the covid vaccine in stock, and statewide the average seems to be, oh, 12%. (Made up numbers.)

Math quiz: do list first?

do *which* list first

Sadly, we aren't in charge of implementing the Edit button.

Does it feel like we're accelerating? It feels to me like we're accelerating. Which is good, because we are not moving fast enough.

Every day matters. Every dose matters.

Let me make it this explicit because maybe it's not obvious if you haven't breathed this problem for a week:

We don't have machines guess where the vaccine is to publish that on the website.

We have machines guess which pharmacies our professionals *should call first.*

And then, after a medical professional has told our professional that yes they have the vaccine and yes it could be administered under X/Y/Z circumstances, we write that down and put it on the website.