Facebook this week announced a new tool to help connect people to COVID-19 vaccines. The tool will be housed in a “COVID Information Center” in the news feed on Facebook, and will be featured prominently on Instagram as well. Yet tens of thousands of comments below the post showed that securing coveted vaccination appointments is not the only challenge. Already, parts of Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Argentina are using the Facebook-owned messaging platform to provide official vaccination information, according to the company. “We’ve already seen people use Facebook to find vaccination appointments, so this should enable millions more people to do the same,” it said in a news release.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 17, 2021 19:51 UTC