The one who helped millions of others locate the vaccine will close once the project is complete.
KIRKLAND, Washington – They say everything comes to an end.
That’s what happens with a program created and run by volunteers from Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook that has helped millions of people get vaccinated.
Since covering for the first time the history of creating the covidwa. com online page, the State Department of Health has stated that it has a key partner, offering DOH with 90% of its vaccine data. undeniable what once seemed like a desperate procedure for some.
Nowadays, getting your COVID photo is easy, but it wasn’t like that a few months ago.
“I’m 80 years old in the law and they just didn’t know how to get vaccinated, so I took over,” says George Hu, co-founder of the site.
Hu, a former Microsoft employee, really enjoys technology. If someone could locate a date, it would seem like it was him, but after spending countless hours in many places “I thought, there would have to be a better way to do it. “
And there it was.
“We can program a bot to move to all those other stores and find out if it’s available. “
In January, with the collaboration of a few tech-connoisseurs, they designed a robot that would gather dating availability knowledge from 1,200 vaccine providers and combine them in the same place: covidwa. com.
“This is one of the greatest things that has happened to our project,” says Arin Jaff.
As a young top student, Jaff had presented his own homework at about the same time, decided to help the elders locate appointments and recruit their teammates.
“I needed the hardest people to execute who I could track down and they were the apparent choice,” Jaff says.
He and his teammates formed the vaccination team and went to the sites.
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“Just click, click, click, update, update, update to verify and get an appointment, and it’s very tedious, but it’s the only way to do it. . . Jaff said.
But then we covidwa. com.
“He replaced the game,” Jaff says.
The online page is so easy to navigate that the vaccination team’s request for assistance decreased.
“Stopping our activities is a pleasure because it meant that other people could do it themselves. This meant that our paintings were no longer necessary, which is the point,” Says Jaff.
Today, 4 months after creating covidwa. com, Hu has the same feeling.
“One of our goals is to bankrupt us. We said the day you just walk into your local pharmacy and get an appointment, we wouldn’t love each other anymore, and that day came. “
Hu says he’s a little bittersweet, but they end up on a positive note.
“We believe we helped get part of Washington state vaccinated,” Hu says.
The online page will officially close on Friday, but Hu says his paintings are not finished. They are for volunteers to help with some COVID-related creations, adding anything other people may have on their phones to serve as evidence of vaccination.
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