Thread by @patio11

Valentine's Day was Day 32 for VaccinateCA.com

Here's what we did on it:

* Called hundreds of pharmacies across the state of California asking about vaccine availability and conditions, and wrote down what the pharmacists said.

* Completed preliminary work on our new caller experience, which is Slack- and bespoke-app-based rather than Discord- and Airtable- based. We had heard from our volunteers that, after most were not themselves technologists, the barriers to participation were formidable.

We'll be rolling that out to our volunteer callers over the next few days.

* Continued work on data freshness and strategizing for upcoming changes in society's posture. The vaccine supply is still critically limited, but more doses get delivered almost every day, and this will

make our job harder at the margin, rather than easier. There will be *more* locations the vaccine is available, but also *more* distinctions we'll need to keep track of (general availability, general availability w/ comorbidities, 65+, etc etc), and they'll change more rapidly.

More locations and more rapid changes means we're running an operational Red Queen's Race: we have to run faster to stay in place, making more calls just to have as fresh data on the same number of locations as we did the day before.

We're running while plotting on strategy.

* Org stuff: There's been a lot of important work over the last few weeks on making this sustainable for the critical period of the pandemic for the team and our volunteers. I anticipate we'll have more to share on that soon.

If you'd like to help out making calls, sign up at vaccinateca.com/volunteer and we'll be in touch soon.