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

https://github.com/oscarhealth/covid19-testing

by W00kasz • 6 years ago

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riwsky• 6 years 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

itsEtai• 6 years 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-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)

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

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