Thread by @patio11

Day 52 of VaccinateCA.com and I have the update baton.

It's been a busy few days, but we still did the same thing we do every day: call hundreds of medical professionals to confirm ground truth about the availability of the covid-19 vaccines.

Lots of work starting:

https://twitter.com/KimDietzTweets/status/1368103515457867778

The state has announced a major change in eligibility criteria (broadening of vaccine availability, including prominently to individuals with pre-existing conditions, who are at high-risk if they contract covid-19) on March 15th.

We are sprinting to get ready for this.

This is going to include:

1) Needing to understand and model how the healthcare system(s) understand pre-existing conditions
2) Assisting in communicating that message to our end-users and those of community-focused organizations
3) Rearchitecting to capture on-the-ground truth

We're quickly doing research projects, adjusting call scripts, scaling call capacity (including adding two call centers), rearchitecting our backend (new version in Django, after Airtable has served us well the last 2 months), and similar to get ready for a more complex operation

We've also hired a full-time PM, to help us with the increasingly complicated interplay between our internal operations, product surfaces, and partners.

In addition to our public API, we have been backing a few large publishers, and are continuing to work on more. More later.

We're up to 2,077 locations with the vaccine available in California.

The rapid increase in the last few days is partially a reflection of ground truth and partially us expanding our calling footprint to include some data sources we recently got access to.

The next few weeks are going to be all-hands-on-deck here as we deal with this stage of the response. It would be a high leverage time to make some calls, particularly next weekend and week.

If you'd like to help, please register interest at vaccinateca.com/volunteer