Vaccination against Covid-19 (illustration).
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Guillaume Rozier, founder of the CovidTracker.fr site, has just launched VaccinTracker, a new tool to monitor the vaccination campaign in France.
"This tracker makes it possible to follow the proportion of French people already vaccinated against Covid-19, and the number of people remaining to be vaccinated to achieve collective immunity", explains
the young 24-year-old engineer
to
20 minutes
.
To date, 332 people [as of Wednesday, December 30] have been vaccinated, the platform said.
It is a tool that will quickly become essential.
After the very first injection, administered last Sunday to Mauricette, a resident of an Ehpad in Seine-Saint-Denis, the French still have many questions about the vaccine against Covid-19.
Between the fake news that abound on social networks and excessive information from continuous news channels, it is today complicated to obtain clear and precise figures on the vaccination campaign launched in France against the epidemic of coronavirus.
What proportion of French people have been vaccinated?
What are the main phases of vaccination?
What are the different types of vaccines offered?
It is to answer all these questions that Guillaume Rozier,
data scientist
and founder of the CovidTracker.fr site, launched VaccinTracker, a new tool to monitor the vaccination campaign in France.
"This tracker makes it possible to follow the proportion of French people already vaccinated against Covid-19, and the number of people remaining to be vaccinated to achieve collective immunity", explains
the young 24-year-old engineer
to
20 minutes
.
🆕 Here is a brand new tool, VaccinTracker!
Follow the evolution of vaccination against # Covid19 in France.
Number of people vaccinated, types of vaccines authorized, vaccination phases… 👉🏻 https://t.co/kvTxPYHCFp @CovidTracker_fr pic.twitter.com/dBNrfDyxVa
- GRZ - CovidTracker (@GuillaumeRozier) December 27, 2020
"I never imagined arousing the interest of people with graphics"
To date, 332 people [as of Wednesday, December 30] have been vaccinated, the site said.
“The objective of this new tool, launched on Sunday, is to monitor the state of vaccination in France, to see how quickly the campaign is progressing.
The goal is to gradually expand the site with new data that I will be able to collect.
Because today we have very little information, only some data from the ARS [regional health agencies], but nothing from Public Health France, ”adds the engineer specializing in big data.
The cabinet of Olivier VĂ©ran, Minister of Health, however, undertook to communicate regularly to Guillaume Rozier all health data relating to the vaccination campaign.
“The Ministry of Health contacted me today [Wednesday] to tell me that it would now send me the figures daily, to allow me to centralize and make all the data accessible to the general public.
There is today a real desire for transparency on their part, especially when we know the skepticism of the French around the vaccine.
It's a bit of a way for them to reassure citizens, ”said the
data scientist
.
đź”´ 332 people were vaccinated, i.e. + 194 today.
This is more than the cumulative amount of the previous 3 days.
more info: https://t.co/kvTxPYZe3Z # Covid19 pic.twitter.com/Fz4T0BotoO
- GRZ - CovidTracker (@GuillaumeRozier) December 30, 2020
The VaccinTracker page is now organized around five major benchmarks: the number of people vaccinated, the proportion of people vaccinated in relation to the total to be achieved to hope for collective immunity, the vaccines currently authorized and distributed, as well as those in progress. authorization or not completed, the schedule (and the corresponding sentences), as well as the status of vaccination worldwide.
Simple to understand and regularly updated, Guillaume Rozier's graphics quickly won over Internet users and the media.
"I never imagined arousing the interest of so many people with graphs and tables, with things as technical, almost mathematical", recognizes the engineer today.
"A real public utility service"
The CovidTracker platform, and today VaccinTracker, is a hit.
They count tens of thousands of views every day, sometimes with peaks of several million views.
These tools, made up of graphs and other tables, are considered today by the French as "a real public utility service".
“I became aware of this when a large hospital explained to me that it used my crisis cell site every day to try to anticipate the epidemic, and estimate the needs in personnel and in intensive care beds.
I thought to myself that it was not right that such a responsibility - lives depend on it - rests on the shoulders of a 24 year old student.
It is a tool that should have been created by the public authorities.
In a way, I make up for a lack of the State, ”explains Guillaume Rozier, who recognizes that there is today a real debate around this question.
“Some say this is the normal way open data works, publishing data.
That is, the state plays its role in collecting and publishing data in a secure (respecting privacy) and comprehensive manner.
And that it is then up to the citizens to do the second part of the work, that is to say the data processing and analysis via visualizations and other graphics, ”explains Guillaume Rozier.
The young engineer, who works in a computer consulting company, regrets however that "the State has not created a more elaborate tool" to meet this demand from the population "in this very special period" ...
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