ImmuniCue

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Inspiration

My inspiration for the project came when I was looking at the UN Sustainable Goals website and saw the statistics of how many kids miss crucial vaccinations every year. I did more research and I found that people sometimes do not know where or when to get certain vaccines. There are some systems in place to remind people but they are controlled by hospitals and they only remind the people that go to a certain hospital will get the reminder. I wanted to expand this by using government records to remind people of vaccinations.

What it does

My project uses messaging to remind people to get vaccinated on time. It uses government records of a person’s name, home address, phone number, and birthday to let them know about when and where they can get vaccinated. I made my code generate a messaging schedule that is exported as a .json file that can be plugged into something like Twilio to actually message peopl.

How we built it

I used Python to code it and I also used the google maps API and the person’s home address to find out where the closest hospital is to them.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge I ran into was I couldn’t really find a good dataset to test my code. It was hard to find because I needed to use real addresses to make it work. To do this I used ChatGPT to generate me random, yet real, addresses that correspond to fake people with fake birthdays and phone numbers.