It's no secret that New York City, just like a number of other places over in the United States, has now been having a hard time with the distribution of the COVID vaccine. One of the big problems is the messy online sign-up websites, which a number of city officials have actually denounced as quite complex, burdensome, and even buggy.
NYC Vaccine List
According to the story by Gizmodo, officials even stated that this would be creating an obstacle for a number of people, especially for those seniors that are considered a priority group for the vaccine. The NYC Vaccine List can now be viewed through the official list through clicking this link.
The NYC Vaccine List came during mid-January as a user-friendly website that was created as well as run by volunteers that work by scanning vaccine appointment data coming from different locations. The website scans the data coming from clinics, pharmacies, and also other locations with other groups together.
New York Vaccine registration
The site then shows the information on one particular page which also show the locations along with the available vaccine appointments. The website also shows the locations that have no vaccine appointments as well as locations where the given information is still not up to date.
When the site is able to find somewhere that has vaccine appointments, the NYC Vaccine List will then include a simple sign up button. Users will then be taken directly to the website of the available location. This is a very simple process but according to the VaccineFinder.nyc.gov website, it is important that those applying for the vaccine should first fill up this form.
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New York state COVID vaccine
What makes the NYC Vaccine List page easy to use is their simplified platform that only includes a few buttons which is very user-friendly and self-explanatory. Users can easily search for available vaccine appointments within their area. There will be no need to go through endless pages in order to find which places have available COVID vaccine appointments.
According to an article by The Verge, the website is actually tackling one of the largest challenges of some online vaccine appointment sign ups over in New York namely fragmentation. The outlet then points out that there are a number of entities, cities, states, and even hospital groups that are distributing the vaccine as well as using multiple registration websites making things very important to the user.
According to the noted outlet, it was the software developer named Dan Benamy who experienced this chaos firsthand then decided to reach out to certain friends and colleagues in order to create a simple solution within only a few days. They were reportedly able to create the NYC Vaccine list which now has lists of vaccine appointment data coming from a whopping 40 different locations. During the past few weeks, Benamy then stated that the website has actually been viewed about tens of thousands of times.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
