Speaking of which: it is Day 136 for VaccinateTheStates.com and I have the update baton.
Today, as always, the most important thing we did was collect information on where to get the covid-19 vaccines and fan it out to places where vaccine seekers will think to look.
Today, as always, the most important thing we did was collect information on where to get the covid-19 vaccines and fan it out to places where vaccine seekers will think to look.
We're increasingly relying on the "web bank" versus "phone bank" for our marginal data ingestion. The supply situation is uneven across the U.S. but the spottiness has largely worked its way out of the system; we more rarely see things change when calling a location repeatedly.
The data which continues to be very volatile is local government and community-run pop-up or mobile vaccination clinics. They often exist only for a few hours after being announced a day or handful in advance.
We mostly find out about these via tool-assisted people keying in.
We mostly find out about these via tool-assisted people keying in.
The tool assistance is largely a matter of putting automated watchers on the Facebook page of every county health department we can find; these (and Instagram, and other social media) are the dominant forms of official distribution of new pop up locations.
We currently have something like a thousand manually entered locations tracked, plus data partnerships and scrapers, summing to almost 75,000 sites nationwide.
We publish these to our own sites, to governmental entities (including via embeds on their sites), and to partners.
We publish these to our own sites, to governmental entities (including via embeds on their sites), and to partners.
A lot of the work currently in flight concerns expanding our partnerships with some of the largest publishers in the world. For the usual reasons we can't talk about them before they go live, but exciting things are coming here.
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