Thread by @DrEricDing

Scoop:💡NEW VACCINE APPOINTMENT SEARCH ENGINE💡

Vaccines save lives, but process of booking a Walgreens slot online is a “hellish experience”.

Wasted slots = longer #COVID19 pandemic.

➡️ Solution: Hackivists created a fast & easy live search engine!!!🧵
getmyvaccine.org

2) Nationwide, Walgreens & Duane Reed vaccine booking system sucks, says @erick_hietamaki.

On Walgreen’s sucky website, you have to pick an exact Walgreens (and only one at a time), and then pick exact date (only that date) and then a time window (only that window!!!)—ugly.

3) And if searching different SPECIFIC time window or date or store, you have to start all over again on Walgreens—most cumbersome site ever! if you’re not tech savvy, forget it!

Also, what if you want to check last minute openings & want to quick check for new slots?! Tough...

4) But now, thanks to getmyvaccine.org, you can easily check all Walgreens & Duane Reed stores AT ONCE for any zip code—

It instantly show all open slots at each store, & for the next 7 days & *every* store in your area!

All local stores
All slots at each store
7 days

5) Look at 02886, which is Rhode Island.. you can find slots 25 miles away (direct line) in CT — assuming you’re eligible in another states. CT allows vaccinating people who live or work there for example.

Eligibility per state at moment: walgreens.com/images/adaptiv…

6) AFTER YOU FIND AN APPOINTMENT SLOT: then proceed to bottom of this page to begin that tedious Walgreens process to get the specific appointment.

➡️But luckily you know the slot is open already! Search engine is updated *LIVE*, so it should be there.

walgreens.com/findcare/vacci…

7) Bottomline: This GetMyVaccine.org vaccine appointment search engine will save lives by speeding up vaccinations by preventing vaccine slot waste!

➡️As an epidemiologist, I think this will save lives! So special thank you @erick_hietamaki and his team of hackivists.

8) Footer: Vaccine appointment slot waste is a huge inefficiency issue - and an overlooked impediment in many areas for speeding vaccine administration.

Hope @ASlavitt @JeffZients @WHCOS can further solve this issue nationwide beyond Walgreens. We need instant vaccine data. 🙏

9) ...and we just crashed their server @erick_hietamaki says. Lol. Let’s be patient :)

10) Good news— getmyvaccine.org is live again after a traffic outage (because it was so popular!!)

The only caveat is that @getmyvaccine now pulls from Walgreens servers every 3-4 minutes for updates instead of instantly. But usually any slot you find should be there.