A box of Moderna vaccine.

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Make sure that all available doses of vaccine are administered without losing a single drop.

This is the goal of the new Covidliste application launched at the end of March with the slogan #AucuneDosePerdue.

The principle: put vaccination centers in touch with candidates for vaccination - sometimes still not eligible - so as not to lose precious doses of serum which must be consumed quickly.

“Some vaccines (such as Pfizer / BioNTech) administered in vaccination centers require a complex logistics chain.

When a patient misses an appointment, the already opened vial should be consumed promptly.

Covidliste facilitates access to a list of volunteers for vaccination centers, ”explain the initiators of the project on their website.

"Supply and demand problems"

“These are typically supply and demand issues that don't meet, which was my job for several years in Silicon Valley.

I said to myself that there might be a tool to create to make everything more fluid and efficient, ”summed up one of the designers, Martin Daniel, on France Inter on Sunday.

With another data scientist Mathieu Ripert and Dr Antoine Roux from the Foch hospital (Suresnes), they therefore launched this project, which in a few days turned into a formidable collaborative effort: “In the space of a few hours, we had a hundred volunteers who came forward.

We have engineers who are among the best you can recruit, we have lawyers, people who do communication… In fact, you combine skills very quickly and the magic takes place, ”added Martin Daniel on France Inter.

To apply, a few clicks are enough: “Enter your information and validate your registration.

When a dose is available, a link is sent to you.

Upon confirmation, you are put in touch with a vaccination center.

Warning: if you do not quickly validate your request, this dose will be allocated to a future volunteer, ”explains the website.

This Monday, at the beginning of the afternoon, more than 192,467 volunteers had already registered

and this Saturday the first 11 volunteers were able to be vaccinated in a vaccination center in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

After the vaccination centers, the creators hope to involve doctors and pharmacists but also the authorities to "formalize" the device: "when it works for a few doses it can work for hundreds of thousands of people very quickly", summarizes the co-founder.

The site ensures compliance with the RGPD regulations: in a detailed thread on Twitter, the application specifies that you can "at any time delete your data by clicking on" delete my account "", that the site uses "SSL encryption to secure communication of your data ”and recalls that it does not collect“ any medical data ”.

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"Quickly my dose", the site to find the available niches

A new site called "Quickly my dose" "automatically detects the next available appointment in your department".

It was created by the computer engineer Guillaume Rozier already at the origin of the CovidTracker site, a tool that uses official data to follow the evolution of the epidemic.

This engine "is not an official tool, is not exhaustive and does not replace a manual search", warns the site, which is based for the moment only on Doctolib.

It is also aimed at people who are already eligible, which currently includes all over 70s as well as individuals presenting certain risks in the lower age groups.

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