Google to Provide Some of Its Facilities as Vaccination Clinics .
On Jan. 25, the tech giant announced it
is launching a $150 million initiative ...
... to promote vaccine education and provide
fair access to those who wish to be vaccinated. .
Google plans to offer some of its facilities in
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kirkland, Washington
and New York City as vaccination clinics.
The company intends to expand beyond those locations once more vaccines are available across the country. .
According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, $100 million in ad grants will go to the CDC, WHO and other nonprofits.
$50 million will go toward providing vaccine education to "underserved communities.".
According to Google, "searches for 'vaccines near me' have increased 5x since the beginning of the year.".
The vaccine info panels in
its search results will now be
expanded, showing state and
regional distribution info.
Getting vaccines to billions of people won’t be easy, but it’s one of the most important problems we’ll solve in our lifetimes, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, via blog post