An Iowa City web developer's Twitter account went viral, then he thought about shutting it down

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – Iowa Vaccine Alerts is less than a month old on Twitter. It has around 22,000 followers as of Wednesday, but the web developer who created the account almost shut it down.31% of adults in Iowa have had one COVID-19 shot or more. That number was 27% last week. It’s not just the supply increasing. Iowans over 65 without computer access can pull out their cell phone, make a call to 211 and get help scheduling an appointment. But, now they’re competing with a new, younger, group of people with their own set of tools.Brian Finley, who created an automated account that tweets when new vaccine appointments are available at a Hy-Vee, CVS, or Walgreens, created one of those tools. He said the thought of taking the vaccine away from people who needed it made him think about shutting his Twitter account.“I don’t do well thinking that something that I would do would make this harder for anyone,” he said. “But as most people in the health care business will attest you, there’s not always one right answer for everybody and so it was a matter of finding a way to do the most good while…
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