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Teens and Other Volunteers Help Seniors Find Scarce COVID Shots
Sign-up systems for vaccines are horribly confusing, so people across the U.S. set up Facebook pages and phone lines with hands-on help
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Waking up at the crack of dawn. Dialing the same busy phone line for hours on end. Clicking through confusing prompts on website after website. With demand far outstripping supply, the frenzied search for a COVID vaccine appointment can be overwhelming, even for eligible people in high-priority, high-risk groups, such as older adults.
“It’s been a nightmare,” says Caroline Cooper, a 78-year-old attorney in Chevy Chase, Md., who is familiar with computers and bureaucracies and still could not find herself a shot. “It’s very stressful, because you don’t know if you’ll ever get the vaccine.” Appointment systems are incredibly convoluted, and vaccine seekers can’t easily tell whether they should contact a state, a city, a county, a local hospital or drugstore, all of which can post new appointments at all hours of the day and night, often with different criteria and procedures for signing up.
California group creates website to help seniors find COVID-19 vaccines Share Updated: 7:56 AM PST Jan 28, 2021 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 7:56 AM PST Jan 28, 2021
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Show Transcript US LIVE WITH A LOOK AT THIS PROJECT. EDIE: YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF VACCINES AVAILABLE, BUT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MADE ENDLESS PHONE CALLS, OR ONLINE SEARCHES TRYING TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY CAN GET VACCINATED. TWO WEEKS AGO, A GUY TWEETED, ' ’HEY WHY DON’T WE CREATE A VOLUNTEER TEAM TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO FIND THIS POTENTIALLY LIFESAVING INFORMATION?’ AND FROM THAT A TEAM IN SILICON , VALLEY CAME TOGETHER AND WITHIN TWO DAYS CREATED A WEBSITE CALLED VACCINATE CA. IT’S DEDICATED TO BRINGING PEOPLE UPDATED AND ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN GET VACCINATED. THEY NOW HAVE A POOL OF 250 VOLUNTEERS WHO MAKE PHONE CALLS UP AND DOWN THE STATE, EVERY DAY, FINDING OUT WHO HAS DOSES OF THE VACCINE, AND WHERE THE VACCINATIONS ARE AVAILABLE. THEY SAY IT’S BEEN VERY REWARDING. >> WHILE THERE MIGHT BE VACCINES IN THE SYSTEM, IT’S HARD TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE UNLESS YOU JUST CALL EVERYONE. SO WE ARE TRYING TO FILL THAT NICHE OF, WE WILL TELL YOU FROM ASKING PEOPLE ON THE GROUND BY CALLING THE PHARMACISTS BY CALLING THE DOCTORS WE ARE GOING TO ASK THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND DO YOU HAVE THE VACCINES, AND PUBLISH THIS INFORMATION. IF YOU KNOW YOU’RE ELIGIBLE WE WILL HELP YOU FIND THIS INFORMATION. LEAVING AS FEEDBACK SAYING I HAVE A 70-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLD PARENT WHO WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN VACCINATED WITHOUT THIS, OR I WAS LOOKING FOR WEEKS AND THERE WAS NOTHING AND NOW I FOUND SOMETHING, GRANTED WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT 100% COMPLETE BUT IN CASES LIKE THIS YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE, YOU HAVE TO DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND WILL STILL HELP PEOPLE SO IT’S VERY FULFILLING. EDIE: THE ORGANIZERS SPENT THEIR OWN MONEY TO CREATE THE SITE, AND THEY’RE DOING THIS WORK WHILE HOLDING DOWN JOBS AT COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE. AGAIN, THE SITE IS VACCINATECA.COM. AND LISA AND BRIAN, THEY SAY THEY HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS AT THIS POINT. BACK TO YOU. BRIAN: I’M GOING TO TEXT THIS TO MY MOM TONIGHT. YOU ARE RIGHT, THIS IS THE MOST COMMON QUESTION WE HAVE BEEN GETTING FROM VIEWERS. WHAT A GREAT CONCEPT. LISA: AND
California group creates website to help seniors find COVID-19 vaccines Share Updated: 11:58 AM PST Jan 28, 2021 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 11:58 AM PST Jan 28, 2021
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Show Transcript US LIVE WITH A LOOK AT THIS PROJECT. EDIE: YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF VACCINES AVAILABLE, BUT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE MADE ENDLESS PHONE CALLS, OR ONLINE SEARCHES TRYING TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY CAN GET VACCINATED. TWO WEEKS AGO, A GUY TWEETED, ' ’HEY WHY DON’T WE CREATE A VOLUNTEER TEAM TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO FIND THIS POTENTIALLY LIFESAVING INFORMATION?’ AND FROM THAT A TEAM IN SILICON , VALLEY CAME TOGETHER AND WITHIN TWO DAYS CREATED A WEBSITE CALLED VACCINATE CA. IT’S DEDICATED TO BRINGING PEOPLE UPDATED AND ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THEY CAN GET VACCINATED. THEY NOW HAVE A POOL OF 250 VOLUNTEERS WHO MAKE PHONE CALLS UP AND DOWN THE STATE, EVERY DAY, FINDING OUT WHO HAS DOSES OF THE VACCINE, AND WHERE THE VACCINATIONS ARE AVAILABLE. THEY SAY IT’S BEEN VERY REWARDING. >> WHILE THERE MIGHT BE VACCINES IN THE SYSTEM, IT’S HARD TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE UNLESS YOU JUST CALL EVERYONE. SO WE ARE TRYING TO FILL THAT NICHE OF, WE WILL TELL YOU FROM ASKING PEOPLE ON THE GROUND BY CALLING THE PHARMACISTS BY CALLING THE DOCTORS WE ARE GOING TO ASK THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND DO YOU HAVE THE VACCINES, AND PUBLISH THIS INFORMATION. IF YOU KNOW YOU’RE ELIGIBLE WE WILL HELP YOU FIND THIS INFORMATION. LEAVING AS FEEDBACK SAYING I HAVE A 70-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLD PARENT WHO WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN VACCINATED WITHOUT THIS, OR I WAS LOOKING FOR WEEKS AND THERE WAS NOTHING AND NOW I FOUND SOMETHING, GRANTED WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT 100% COMPLETE BUT IN CASES LIKE THIS YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE, YOU HAVE TO DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND WILL STILL HELP PEOPLE SO IT’S VERY FULFILLING. EDIE: THE ORGANIZERS SPENT THEIR OWN MONEY TO CREATE THE SITE, AND THEY’RE DOING THIS WORK WHILE HOLDING DOWN JOBS AT COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE. AGAIN, THE SITE IS VACCINATECA.COM. AND LISA AND BRIAN, THEY SAY THEY HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS AT THIS POINT. BACK TO YOU. BRIAN: I’M GOING TO TEXT THIS TO MY MOM TONIGHT. YOU ARE RIGHT, THIS IS THE MOST COMMON QUESTION WE HAVE BEEN GETTING FROM VIEWERS. WHAT A GREAT CONCEPT. LISA: AND
Volunteers Create the First COVID-19 Vaccine Availability Database
The U.S. is currently administering around 1 million shots of the COVID-19 vaccine a day, but that doesn’t mean the process is going well. Of the roughly 48 million doses that have been distributed, only 47.8% have been administered. Many people who are eligible for the vaccine are having trouble getting their hands on a shot.
We know that at least 6.7% of the U.S. population has received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine, but only 1.1% have gotten both. States like Alaska and West Virginia have either surpassed or are about to surpass the 10% threshold, but large states like New York and California continue to fall short.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Is it my turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine? If so, where can I find one? How do I make an appointment?
Several weeks in to California's coronavirus vaccine rollout, the state is still struggling to provide quick and easy answers to those questions. So a group of locals, most of them tech workers, stepped in to help.
"People should come together and make things work," said Manish Goregaokar, a software engineer at Google. "We shouldn't have to wait for someone else to do it."
They created a crowdsourced database of every vaccination location in California at VaccinateCA.com.
State Activates MyTurn Vaccine Clearinghouse Website Friday, January 22, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
National Guard members and medical personnel administer COVID vaccines to health care workers at a drive-through distribution site at Cal Expo in Sacramento on Jan. 21, 2021.
Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Facing criticism for its chaotic COVID-19 vaccine rollout, California has quietly launched a long-promised statewide website to help residents learn when they are eligible to receive the vaccine and schedule appointments.
Called MyTurn (myturn.ca.gov), the online registry has not yet been widely promoted and still is a work in progress. Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to formally unveil the registry this week.