The story of VaccinateCA - Works in Progress

Nobody had a plan to get vaccines out of freezers and into Americans’ arms–except VaccinateCA. Its CEO tells the story of how a small team brought order to a chaotic rollout.

The development of vaccines for Covid-19 was a world historical success. The rollout of the vaccines in the United States was plagued with logistical and communication issues. In January 2021, a ragtag group of technologists spun up a volunteer effort to fix some of these issues with the rollout, beginning with the State of California’s lack of a website listing where one could get vaccinated. Within months they created and operated the shadow data infrastructure for the US vaccination effort. This infrastructure quietly bridged public and private sector response efforts, made the vaccine Goog

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• Michael Tang
• Arielle Lok
• Nhật Nguyễn Thế
• Tamseel Ahmad
• Ashwin Sreevatsa
• Yudhister Joel Kumar
• Julian H
• Jeremy Kintana
• Aayush Gupta

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