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I've been in a lot of local gov discussions about the COVID vaccine distribution efforts. TLDR; we're completely unprepared to vaccinate the whole country and technology is the bottleneck.
Read on if you're curious on why you don't even know when you will get the vaccine
Read on if you're curious on why you don't even know when you will get the vaccine
This is obviously disappointing since we knew vaccines were coming for 9 months. Whenever we asked all, we heard was "we got this, don't worry".
https://twitter.com/erenbali/status/1283449216468086785?s=20 https://twitter.com/erenbali/status/1336721481456254979?s=20
https://twitter.com/erenbali/status/1283449216468086785?s=20 https://twitter.com/erenbali/status/1336721481456254979?s=20
The vaccination effort was supposed to be centralized, so we were expecting the federal/state government to have a system to manage this effort. But all we have is boxes of vaccines shipped to each county DPH and a one-pager from CDC about who should be prioritized.
Each county is frantically piecemealing a system rn to manage this massive effort. Florida is literally using Eventbrite (HIPAA anyone?).
This is a lot more complex than it looks. Since we realized local govs have no support, we started working non-stop to build a solution.
This is a lot more complex than it looks. Since we realized local govs have no support, we started working non-stop to build a solution.
We need systems to queue people based on priority, seamless registiration, workflows optimized for very high throughput, central vaccine reporting (vs integrating with every single state), reminders for 2nd dose, ability to collect side effects, digital vaccine cards, and more...
Local governments won't learn how to build tech platform in a few weeks. This is where we need to bring tech companies that can work in actual "warp speed".
