Kevin has the baton for the VaccinateCA.com update today. (I suppose yesterday, in California.)
https://twitter.com/kevinbryantlou/status/1357208722380972032
The only California post code I know off the top of my head is 90210, which is probably not optimal from a testing perspective, but I still am encouraged every time I see the map filling in.
Red pins are where a healthcare professional told us Yes.
Blue pins are supersites.
Red pins are where a healthcare professional told us Yes.
Blue pins are supersites.
We are finding about 20 new locations a day. That growth has slowed to what I think is probably close to the rate of growth in ground truth (for pharmacies); after ~7.5k calls we can't simply call new pharmacies we haven't heard of yet.
Working on expanding the call crawl.
Working on expanding the call crawl.
"Expanding?"
We've been focusing most call efforts on pharmacies because early tests showed we could get the responsible professional on the phone quickly, get useful information quickly, and pharmacies are often "overlooked supply" from perspective of a patient looking around.
We've been focusing most call efforts on pharmacies because early tests showed we could get the responsible professional on the phone quickly, get useful information quickly, and pharmacies are often "overlooked supply" from perspective of a patient looking around.
But pharmacies aren't the only places getting shipments of the vaccine in California, and so we're early in experiments with calls to other types of institutions, trying to balance desire for increased coverage, scalability of the approach, and routable-doses-found-per-call.
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