John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will open in 2023 (2021)
prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2024-01-16) · owner: John
In December 2021 John said the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone was expected to open in 2023, and he repeated it in January 2022 and August 2023. In January 2024 he said the center was nearly finished and still being painted, so it had not opened 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 is on track to open on schedule (2021)
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 | repeated | 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 maternity ward building of the Maternal Center of Excellence will open this year (2023). | The Panera Phenomenon 00:00:20 |
| 2024-01-16 | proved wrong | John says the maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital is nearly finished: they are painting it right now. | The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:00:32 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John says some of the maternal and infant care center's wards will open this year (2024). — 00:00:40
- 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