A COVID vax appointment aggregator for NYC

[brooklynite]

https://www.turbovax.info

TurboVax finds the latest appointments from 43 city and state-run vaccine sites in the NYC area.

Follow our Twitter (@turbovax) to be instantly notified when appointments open up.
Refresh this page often. Appointments are published to this page in real-time.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/nyregion/vaccine-website-appointment-nyc.html

N.Y.’s Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50.
New Yorkers with tech skills were appalled when they tried to make vaccine appointments for older relatives. They knew there was a better way.
By Sharon Otterman
Feb. 9, 2021

Huge Ma, a 31-year-old software engineer for Airbnb, was stunned when he tried to make a coronavirus vaccine appointment for his mother in early January and saw that there were dozens of websites to check, each with its own sign-up protocol. The city and state appointment systems were completely distinct.

“There has to be a better way,” he said he remembered thinking.

So, he developed one. In less than two weeks, he launched TurboVax, a free website that compiles availability from the three main city and state New York vaccine systems and sends the information in real time to Twitter. It cost Mr. Ma less than $50 to build, yet it offers an easier way to spot appointments than the city and state’s official systems do.

“It’s sort of become a challenge to myself, to prove what one person with time and a little motivation can do,” he said last week. “This wasn’t a priority for governments, which was unfortunate. But everyone has a role to play in the pandemic, and I’m just doing the very little that I can to make it a little bit easier.”

Supply shortages and problems with access to vaccination appointments have been some of the barriers to the equitable distribution of the vaccine in New York City and across the United States, officials have acknowledged.

[dhol82]

2. I have been haunting this site for a week and have yet to find an appointment

Granted, I have restricted my search to Manhattan.
I’m figuring I’ll probably get my shot sometime around June.

[brooklynite]

3. Twenty minutes ago, there were appointments tomorrow in Lower Manhattan