COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker for Teachers

A state-by-state educator guide to vaccine eligibility.

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Each US state has different schedules and policies for vaccine distribution, so it can be hard to figure out when and where to get vaccinated. We built this simple, free tool so educators can easily monitor their eligibility and subscribe for updates.
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Launch Team

What do you think? …

Tessa Mu
Hi everyone! We work with educators daily, and have been hearing from many that vaccine rollout is incredibly confusing. Since policies vary widely from state to state, it's hard to find a single source of truth when it comes to eligibility. While teachers are considered frontline essential workers pretty much everywhere, they're still only eligible in half our country. Most states also categorize PreK-12 employees differently than those in higher education, despite both cohorts often expected to teach in person. Example: a professor in New York can be vaccinated now, whereas one in New Hampshire needs to wait until at least May. We built this simple, free tool to provide the latest updates directly from local health departments (accuracy also cross-checked with research dashboards at Boston University), so educators can monitor for themselves and their loved ones in one place. They can also choose to be notified via email if there's a status change in their state. Bonus: no one has to navigate a clunky government website and seven levels of PowerPoint policy docs (except us, we did it for you 😉). Please share with the educators in your life and community—hope it's helpful!
Jennie Ostendorf
This is so awesome and important. Thank you for building! Sharing with all my teacher friends.
Tessa Mu
@jennie_ostendorf please do! Hope they find it helpful!
Chris Ovitz
This is so needed. I was just talking to one of our advisors who's a professor at UCLA—and she was saying how much there needs to be a tool like this! Thank you for building something awesome for the world!
Tessa Mu
@chris_ovitz Thanks, Chris! If she has suggestions for improvements, we're all ears and here to help!