Primary care site says only that it has no vaccine.
NYState has only two sites anywhere in the state that are taking appointments; the closest one is a four hour round trip for me and in a large city.
Walgreens currently has no vaccine but may be getting some. In order to sign up to get a vaccine from Walgreens you have to first open an account, give them your email, agree to accept junk email from Walgreens, and agree to a ‘privacy’ statement that says, as near as I can tell in all the verbiage, that they can do anything with your info that they damn well please. I might do it anyway, but I’m pretty ticked off about it.
Yesterday evening I got a robocall from Orange County asking if I was still interested in being on the waiting list. I pressed “one” for yes, but got no further info on when appointments might be available. As of this morning MyUNC is still telling me that there are no appointments at my local site for the foreseeable future.
Wife, mother-in-law, and I just got back from receiving vaccine #1. Second dose is scheduled 4 weeks from tomorrow. We got the Moderna vaccine.
This was administered by the county health department and was open to 65 and older. Naturally, the appointments filled up quickly, and we were lucky to get ours. Most people got put on the waiting list, pending more shipments to the county. The news this morning said that local pharmacy chains would be receiving shipments within a couple of weeks. I hope that is correct.
I got a letter from Kaiser today saying they were having supply issues so it might be a month before they would be making appointments for 65+ patients. At the same time, Santa Clara County just opened up appointments for 65+. Needless to say I’m not waiting for Kaiser; I’m scheduled for my first vaccine next Monday.
After 2 hours in the cluster I was given a 6 page form to fill out. I selected a pharmacy and was given a date and time. When I clicked on continue it said the pharmacy I selected was booked so select another one. The only one offered was booked.
Yesterday my governor, Kim Reynolds ® (Iowa), held a press conference and slipped in the idea of “thinking about a centralized vaccine information/distribution system”.
Yeah. There’s only about 3+ million of us but to wait until now to actually do something is appalling. Then again it wasn’t until Nov. 2020 that she suggested people wear masks.
I know the neighboring county received 100 doses recently. There’s 99 counties, I believe, in Iowa. At this rate, despite having several comorbidities, I’m going to guess I’ll get vaccinated in the Fall of 2021. I’m grateful I don’t have to leave the house except for doctor appointments.
Hopefully Mistermage gets jabbed sooner since not only does he work where a mask is not used (foundry), he also does all the shopping.
Today, Yavapai County opened up 9,400 slots at 9:00am. I scheduled my first shot at 10 something am. I checked again at 11ish and all appointments were filled.
Hopefully, next year when new shots are required, the PTB will have learned something from this clusterfuck. Pigs might learn how to fly too.
I have seen this bug on government and private vaccine sites in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They get your hopes up, and then dash them. Totally unacceptable.
Vaccine reservation is like buying a product where there is only one in stock. Amazon and Ebay software must handle this situation properly, thousands of times a day, when a customer attempts to purchase the last item in inventory.
I just got a robocall from my cardiologist’s practice group, which started off by saying it was important information about covid vaccine, and that they were calling their over-65 patients to get vaccinated.
And it then continued to say that there’s nowhere near enough vaccine to vaccinate all such people, that they haven’t got any vaccine right now, and that they encourage patients to try elsewhere, such as local pharmacies. Oh yes, and they gave me yet another website to try; which also offers no appointments, just a batch of additional links, most of which I already had and which are still not taking appointments.
Gee, I can’t imagine why seniors are having a hard time getting appointments when, for example, my mother’s local public health authority is only sending appointment confirmations via text message. She is about to turn 78; she is capable of texting, but it’s certainly not her strength, and why would she assume that a mobile phone number was even needed? She had already input her landline information.
TA DA! After only an hour in the cluster I was given the 6 page application again. I managed to get everything right and scheduled a shot for my wife at noon on Friday. Then I went for mine and got a one o’clock slot, but not so fast - the system kept sending me back to start until I finally scheduled an appointment at 6 PM. I’ll take what I can get!
Glad you got scheduled. If I were you I would casually mention the 6PM appointment when you go with your wife. Don’t expect or demand anything, but they might take you with her.
I have SO MANY QUESTIONS. So if my GP of 20+ years and the hospital he is affiliated with are in the burbs but I live in the city, I can’t get vaccinated? Assuming I am successful in getting an appointment somewhere that actually has slots available…
Meanwhile, my mom, who will be 78 next week, seems to have gotten herself an appointment for shot #1 at the hospital that’s a couple of miles from me (but much further from her, because she lives in the nearby suburb). AFAIK she has gotten zero care at that hospital, but apparently people in her suburb can schedule appointments there, because it’s part of the same network as the one in her town (where my GP is affiliated and where I have had various care over the years). But this seems to indicate that the reverse isn’t true unless you work in that suburb? unless the article just applies to state-run vaccination sites and not privately operated ones? Is it bad journalism, bad public health planning, or both? It’s all so unclear.
Why are they even making decisions about when people can get vaccinated based on what zip code they live in? It’s all the same damn metro area - I am less than 10 miles from my mom. She should absolutely be ahead of me in line, but she doesn’t have crappy lungs and I do. They are doing the planning as if people never go anywhere that isn’t their house (or possibly their workplace). I mean that’s been pretty true for me (and my workplace is my house these days), but it would be nice if it weren’t. Why can’t we have a single set of rules for, oh, a 20-mile radius? I expected not to be at the front of the line yet, but this business about it being totally unclear what line I am even eligible to be in is ridiculous. Not like there was the better part of a year to figure out how to organize this or anything.
I signed up the day I became eligible (18-64 with underlying health conditions). A friend signed up the same day, a couple hours before I did. She got her first shot 2-3 days ago. I got the notice late last night that I was now eligible, and am booked for this Saturday. All in all, the wait is a lot shorter than I’d feared.
I will go to a nearby college this Saturday - they have a clinic set up in the sports arena. I think it’ll actually be indoors which is a relief, as it’s supposed to be freezing rain that day (I hope they don’t cancel it!!). My friend had a drive-through slot at a different location.
Two household members, who are similarly in the 18-64 with risk factors group, had not gotten their invitation to schedule, as of last night. I’m sort of wondering whether I should bring them along just in case there are extra doses left over! (due to the bad weather).
In California it’s by county and most places are only taking county residents. Santa Barbara County is still getting through the over 75 group while neighboring counties are on 65 since SB skews so much older. But there are large regional sites, like the one at Dodger Stadium, that will take anyone in the State. I think it’s being run by the Feds rather than the County of LA which is why. Some people from here are getting appointments and making the 100 mile drive rather than waiting for the younger groups to happen locally.
This is an unprecedented event of a massive scale. It’s literally impossible to plan something like this perfectly no matter how much time here is to plan. Anyone familiar with logistics knows that you have to take your best guesses and adapt. And even with the best of planning there will be many corner cases that appear unfair. They didn’t even get the benefit of a slow ramp. Expecting them to go from zero to perfect from the get go or even a couple months in is crazy unreasonable.
I’m still getting ‘no appointments are available’ at various sites; and at others only being directed to the sites which have no appointments available. I’ve been eligible since they opened to over-65’s.
I’m not expecting them to be perfect. I was expecting them to have some way to set up a coherent wait list by area. I’m pretty frustrated that apparently there was no attempt to do that and multiple county, medical, and private pharmacy organizations seem now to be just getting around to trying to do that separately.
ETA: I don’t mind waiting my turn. But I would really like to be able to get in line, and to know that someone will contact me when it is my turn, instead of being expected to keep repeatedly checking multiple places half of which keep referring me around to each other.