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[quote=Anonymous]Seriously. Jeff Bezos, if you haven't steeped down yet as Amazon's CEO, maybe you could volunteer a few of your software engineers to come up with a website that aggregates all the different Covid vaccination sites? My inspiration:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/nyregion/vaccine-website-appointment-nyc.html

[i]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.[/i][/quote]

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