Cwa-wishlist: Prevent vaccine waste by notifying vaccination volunteers

[manuliner]

Feature description

Prevent vaccine waste by notifying vaccination volunteers

1. Users can agree to receive a notification if vaccine needs to be used up.

2. Vaccination centers can enter the quantity and expiration period via their account.

3. The system uses a bit of IT voodoo to determine the next vaccination volunteers. They then have X amount of time to respond. According to the principle of first come, first serve, those who have responded the fastest get the commitments. In the confirmation you will find the address, OTP and the deadline for the vaccinated person to come to the center. Otherwise the next request will be sent out.

Problem and motivation

Once prepared, the COVID-19 vaccine has a shelf life of only a few hours and must be administered during this period.

If no vaccine candidate is found, the vaccine is discarded.

Even with the very first COVID-19 vaccination in Germany, 7 vaccine doses remained at the end of the day.

Fortunately, people willing to vaccinate could be found quickly from the vaccination team.
Currently, for example, surrounding hospitals and their staff are also supplied with the surplus vaccine.

However, it is foreseeable that additional persons willing to vaccinate spontaneously will be needed to avoid disposal of the vaccine.

This is where a reporting function in the Corona app would be helpful as a vaccinator.

Currently, I am trying to establish contacts with vaccination centers and public health departments in NRW to get a public position on the procedure with leftover vaccine doses.

However, my research so far shows that in every case vaccine doses have been left over, but then distributed to employees of care facilities and surrounding hospitals. However, this resource of vaccination volunteers is limited. (All my friends in this area have already been vaccinated). I am trying to get some numbers and relevant Statistics to this.

Is this something you're interested in working on

I wont' be able to code, as this is an ASAP Feature and i am not familiar with mobile dev. But i will in support in Product Owning and PM

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[MikeMcC399]

@manuliner
It sounds like your proposal would need to know the user's location in order to be effective, however the Corona-Warn-App does not know the device's location and is forbidden to use it. (See for instance https://www.coronawarn.app/assets/documents/cwa-privacy-notice-en.pdf Section 5). Did I understand your proposal correctly?

"The app’s entire system has been programmed to process as little personal data as possible. This means that, when you use exposure logging, warn other users, or retrieve a test result, the system does not collect any data that would allow the RKI or other users to infer your identity, your name, your location or other personal details."

The organisation of vaccinations is being handled by each State according to the information on https://www.zusammengegencorona.de/. I'm not in NRW, so I'm not following how it is being done there. I do know though that in Bavaria, where I am located, that anybody can sign up with an account on http://impfzentren.bayern/ to be informed by e-mail / SMS when they can come to be vaccinated. It asks a lot of questions starting with your date-of-birth, medical conditions, including your environment (such as the type of work you do, if applicable, etc.). It uses all that information to prioritise the order of appointments. A system like that could perhaps be extended to offer short-term vaccination appointments.

[manuliner]

Yes there will be a need for a rough location ( city would be enough, to determine the next "Impfzentrum"). So probably CWA will be not the right place for this functionality.

@MikeMcC399 thank you for the Input. I am already contacting all Vaccaination Administration regarding this issue. There is no need to develop a new Application for this, as long as the State has one already running. But they should consider this Feature to solve the Issue. I mean, even if the automatically inform already registered People over there Database, that an short term appointment will be availible, would make a huge difference.

As is did found out yesterday, in Rheinland Pfalz they where forced to throw 228 Vaccinces into the rubbish, since 27.12.2020

https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/kreis-germersheim_artikel,-impfzentrum-w%C3%B6rth-noch-keine-impfdosis-weggeworfen-_arid,5158876.html?reduced=true