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Open-sourced Covid-19 testing site search tool and assessment

111 points by W00kasz 7y ago

W00kasz 7y ago
Oscar Health shares code for covid-19 risk assessment survey and testing site locator, including 650 testing sites in the US
joelklein 7y ago
Terrific, helpful work. Timely and much needed.
neetur 7y ago
glad for the good work, hope it helps the world.
magic_madison 7y ago
Amazing!
deleted 7y ago
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OscarRiley1 7y ago
Great engineering to help against Covid-19
mollyleah92 7y ago
Amazing work here!
Tay2389 7y ago
Much needed!!
jamierosenberg 7y ago
great work!
segan 7y ago
Great work
acanter2518 7y ago
An important resource for the community! Fantastic and needed
riwsky 7y ago
Oscar employee, here. I haven't been involved in the company's COVID response (having joined only a few weeks ago), but the efforts of those I know on these tiger teams have been tremendous—spinning up risk assessments, testing locators, and more for both our site (see below) and wider usage (of which this open sourced work is one instance). Many such teams are still in the thick of it, so juicy hackernewsy engineering write-ups (around the joys of high-pressure requirements definition, slicing code out from a private repo for public distribution, and so on) will have to wait—but hopefully, there will be some public form of them made available when things settle down. covid resources @ the main oscar site: https://www.hioscar.com/covid19 https://www.hioscar.com/covid19
crossfitgirl 7y ago
This is amazing and one of the best tools around for our members and others around the globe.
desert_sunshine 7y ago
Oscar Health risk assessment and testing site locator. Swift and collaborative work that is making a difference!
scotthilliernyc 7y ago
Thanks, Oscar! From a proud alum.
itsEtai 7y ago
Great work! Easy to run. Setup took me about 10 mins. Most of that time was spent getting a Google Maps API key. You can get it with a free trial here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-api-key https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-a... (but it does require credit card info) The frontend is nice, but complex (probably due to time constraints, working with what was available). If I forked this for a project, I would just reuse the test site data and credit Oscar (generated to covid19-testing/javascript/test-site-finder/static/data/sites.json) disclaimer: I work for Oscar (but not on this project)
jonco27 7y ago
Awesome work here - so crucial in times like these!
jwadopian 7y ago
Incredible tool so crucial to what is needed right now excited to see this being implemented. Hats off to our Eng team here at Oscar for standing this up. Great work Team!
natethegreat191 7y ago
Amazing work!
chaule 7y ago
Thanks for making this available to all!
yogi44 7y ago
Great idea!
asala 7y ago
So thankful for a tool like this in a time of need. Thank you to the engineering team at Oscar and all of the individuals on the front lines trying to offer the care that is needed. This tool will definitely be a revolutionary start to help minimize the spread while offering needed knowledge to the world.

111 points by W00kasz 7y ago

Oscar Health shares code for covid-19 risk assessment survey and testing site locator, including 650 testing sites in the US

joelklein 7y ago

Terrific, helpful work. Timely and much needed.

neetur 7y ago

glad for the good work, hope it helps the world.

magic_madison 7y ago

Amazing!

deleted 7y ago

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OscarRiley1 7y ago

Great engineering to help against Covid-19

mollyleah92 7y ago

Amazing work here!

Tay2389 7y ago

Much needed!!

jamierosenberg 7y ago

great work!

segan 7y ago

Great work

acanter2518 7y ago

An important resource for the community! Fantastic and needed

riwsky 7y ago

Oscar employee, here. I haven't been involved in the company's COVID response (having joined only a few weeks ago), but the efforts of those I know on these tiger teams have been tremendous—spinning up risk assessments, testing locators, and more for both our site (see below) and wider usage (of which this open sourced work is one instance). Many such teams are still in the thick of it, so juicy hackernewsy engineering write-ups (around the joys of high-pressure requirements definition, slicing code out from a private repo for public distribution, and so on) will have to wait—but hopefully, there will be some public form of them made available when things settle down. covid resources @ the main oscar site: https://www.hioscar.com/covid19 https://www.hioscar.com/covid19

crossfitgirl 7y ago

This is amazing and one of the best tools around for our members and others around the globe.

desert_sunshine 7y ago

Oscar Health risk assessment and testing site locator. Swift and collaborative work that is making a difference!

scotthilliernyc 7y ago

Thanks, Oscar! From a proud alum.

itsEtai 7y ago

Great work! Easy to run. Setup took me about 10 mins. Most of that time was spent getting a Google Maps API key. You can get it with a free trial here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-api-key https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-a... (but it does require credit card info) The frontend is nice, but complex (probably due to time constraints, working with what was available). If I forked this for a project, I would just reuse the test site data and credit Oscar (generated to covid19-testing/javascript/test-site-finder/static/data/sites.json) disclaimer: I work for Oscar (but not on this project)

jonco27 7y ago

Awesome work here - so crucial in times like these!

jwadopian 7y ago

Incredible tool so crucial to what is needed right now excited to see this being implemented. Hats off to our Eng team here at Oscar for standing this up. Great work Team!

natethegreat191 7y ago

Amazing work!

chaule 7y ago

Thanks for making this available to all!

yogi44 7y ago

Great idea!

asala 7y ago

So thankful for a tool like this in a time of need. Thank you to the engineering team at Oscar and all of the individuals on the front lines trying to offer the care that is needed. This tool will definitely be a revolutionary start to help minimize the spread while offering needed knowledge to the world.