VaccinateCA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n“It’s been a blur,†Manish Goregaokar, a Berkeley software engineer and one of the site’s organizers, said of the site’s rapid growth since its launch last week.<\/p>\n
“I really wish this (rollout) was more coordinated and that we’d prepped for this more,†Goregaokar said. “We didn’t know when it would be ready but we knew that at some point there is going to be a vaccine. The logistics of this should have been figured out.â€<\/p>\n
More than 100 volunteers are now vetting information on the site, Goregaokar said.<\/p>\n
“This kind of haphazard way of getting the vaccine out just creates enormous frustration and is unnecessary,†said Dr. John Swartzberg, an infectious disease specialist at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n
The state’s new MyTurn site “is intended to be one, but not the only, place where Californians can find information on when they are eligible to get vaccinated and to be able to make an appointment for vaccination,†said one state official who was not authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n
Dagny Ellenberg, vice president of Fiona Hutton & Associates, a Sacramento public affairs firm that develops campaigns for state agencies, said a state-run registration site could be useful but had a caveat.<\/p>\n
“In a perfect world, anyone in the state could use a single resource, but I think we’ve all lived through large-scale health care rollouts, like Healthcare.gov, and seen the confusion that can result,†Ellenberg said. “Technical glitches can overshadow the good that’s trying to be accomplished. It would be incredibly important to make sure it can be rolled out in a way that’s effective and avoids glitches.â€<\/p>\n
CalMatters reporter Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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Facing criticism for its chaotic COVID-19 vaccine rollout, California has quietly launched a long-promised statewide website to help residents learn when they are eligible to receive the vaccine and schedule appointments. Called MyTurn (myturn.ca.gov), the online registry has not yet been widely promoted and still is a work in progress. Californians can register on the website to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-english","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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