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The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the efforts of 13-year-old Eli Coustan, who created ILVaccine.org to help people in need schedule vaccine appointments.
13-year-old boy creates website to help people find COVID-19 vaccine appointments and last updated 2021-03-03 16:51:07-05 EVANSTON, Ill. â The mad scramble to secure a COVID-19 vaccine appointment can be frustrating and confounding. Often times, vaccine seekers have to navigate multiple sites. Appointments disappear, sometimes in seconds. Former middle school math teacher Michele Kruse says getting an appointment on her own was not easy. âI'd look in the morning. I'd look a couple hours later, and I was getting nothing,â said Kruse. But she eventually logged on to a site that s...
After securing vaccine appointments for some two dozen acquaintances and friends of friends in various states, a 13-year-old boy decided an aggregation website could expand his reach and help people who didn’t know him.