John: the Maternal Center of Excellence is on track to open on schedule (2021)
prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2026-02-24) · owner: John
In January 2022 John said the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone was on track to open in 2023.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John: the Maternal Center of Excellence should dramatically accelerate progress in care at Koidu (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will open in 2023 (2021) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October 2025 and begin opening to patients in January 2026 (2025)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-21 | predicted | John hopes the progress at Koidu will be accelerated by the Maternal Center of Excellence opening in 2023. (hedged) | NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:02:26 |
| 2022-01-04 | predicted | John says the Maternal Center of Excellence is on track to open in 2023. | After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:00:58 |
| 2023-08-22 | repeated | John says the building at the top left of the picture is a maternity ward that will open this year (2023). | The Panera Phenomenon 00:00:20 |
| 2026-02-24 | proved wrong | John says the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence finally opened at Koidu Government Hospital, radically transforming infant and maternal care in eastern Sierra Leone. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John calls the letter from PIH Sierra Leone Executive Director Dr. Bailor Barrie beautiful, with a link to read it. — 00:02:55
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — ask: John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:55
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — announcement: John: Hank and John will both take next week (week of 27 December 2021) off from Vlogbrothers, so this is John's last video of 2021. — 00:02:55
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John announces the project is on track to raise over $25 million, meaning if monthly donations continue at about their current level. (hedged) — 00:01:27
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: For those interested in how the money is raised and accounted for, an unlisted livestream is linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:27
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Nerdfighteria is large but not that large, and reaching such an ambitious target faster than even the rosiest projections shows what such communities can accomplish. — 00:01:27
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: In a time when so much is terrible, John is heartened by the generosity and solidarity of the last two years. — 00:02:09
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Kono's health system is getting stronger: fewer mothers die for want of an emergency C-section and more kids survive, though maternal mortality is still hundreds of times higher than it should be. — 00:02:09