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VACCINE APPOINTMENT

Shanus — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:27:25 GMT

Last week, I registered to get a vaccine appointment and was contacted Monday that I should be there on Thursday at a certain time, 15 minutes before my appointment.

NC seems quite organized contacting people by email or phone and setting up appointments at many convenient locatons. When they changed it to age 65 and over, I'm a little concerned whether the 2nd vaccine will be available when it's due. I'll just have to take that chance.

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Peaches McPhee — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:45:37 GMT

@Shanus wrote:

NC seems quite organized contacting people by email or phone and setting up appointments at many convenient locatons.

I wish I could say the same for New York. What a crazy mess.

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caroln242 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:46:30 GMT

I'm in Kentucky and registered for the vaccine over a week ago and have heard NOTHING. And no way to find anything out. They say don't call or re-register or you'll lose you place in line. So I just sit here, wondering if I'll ever get called for an appointment. Very disappointing.

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smoochy — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:47:37 GMT

My second dose is scheduled for Feb. 9. Im in the over 65 group as are 4 million of my fellow Floridians 😎😉 the worst part of the process was trying to get through on the phone to schedule the first shot. The actual event was a "drive by shooting" as I like to call it. Well organized, smooth and easy. Yes I too am keeping fingers crossed for availability of the drug for my booster next month

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shaggygirl — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:11:32 GMT

Got the first dose yesterday. At registration the girl took my email address and immediately sent me a link to a My Chart site to sign up & log into to follow another link to arrange for 2nd appt. Once I got that out of the way my 2nd shot date came up automatically and a choice of places to arrange a time to get it. If your first choice had no time slots available you kept trying other places till you found one with a time slot available on your recommended date.

Someone else I know who got their first shot a few weeks before me at the same place I did was given a date and time right then and there. I guess in-between the two of us they changed the procedure.

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skatting44 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:28:28 GMT

@caroln242 wrote:
I'm in Kentucky and registered for the vaccine over a week ago and have heard NOTHING. And no way to find anything out. They say don't call or re-register or you'll lose you place in line. So I just sit here, wondering if I'll ever get called for an appointment. Very disappointing.

Maryland is no better- same proticol . If you even get your name on an " imaginary list than you are supposed to just wait from a call from an unknown person. The staff at the health dept's are essentailly no help if you are having trouble signing up via the internet site . Continues to be a messy rollout by the State of Maryland - it's the State's fault and the local county Health dept.

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Scooby Doo — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:41:40 GMT

I was able to get an appointment for the first dose, but it's a month in advance. We signed up on line and the system kept crashing. 70,000 seniors in the county trying to sign up for 30,000 doses. We can't sign up for the 2nd dose yet so I don't know how that's going to happen.

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ID2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:46:16 GMT

I really don't have much faith that I'll be getting the vaccine anytime soon. Everwhere I registered it says that I won't hear back from anyone for 3-4 WEEKS! Every delivery we're getting here to MI they note that it's much less than anticipated.

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Witchy Woman — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:49:28 GMT

@skatting44

I'm in Maryland and understood they were still in the 1b phase, which is over 75 and others.

I'm in the 1c group, but have seen nothing about registering.

I've been tracking a few places with no luck.

May I ask where you found your info? Thanks.

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Meowingkitty — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:15:44 GMT

I just scheduled mine for next month. Today is the first day for 65-74 year olds. No problems scheduling, just had to hit refresh a few time before the location came up. I chose 2 am (yes you read that right 2am) because from what I've heard early morning hours are faster and less waiting. We are in Arizona and the location is 7 miles from my house.

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skatting44 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:26:26 GMT

@Witchy Woman wrote:
@skatting44

I'm in Maryland and understood they were still in the 1b phase, which is over 75 and others.

I'm in the 1c group, but have seen nothing about registering.

I've been tracking a few places with no luck.

May I ask where you found your info? Thanks.

This is the site where you plug in your zip code then it will direct you to the site where they are offering the vaccine based on your zip code. For me there was another link that I clicked on that had appointment sites listed as full or available - one site was the local health dept - then they prefer you use chrome for my area. However starting Jan 25 in Md they are to allow all those 65 and older to get the vaccine . Some of the Giant grocery stores and some Walmarts. Go to the link I enetered below than it will take you to clicking on additional links.
// coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/vaccine

https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/vaccine

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Deb0509 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:28:34 GMT

I'm in central Florida. Got my first shot last Thursday and they made the appointments for our second shots before we left. I think we were lucky that we got called back. I'm 65.

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shaggygirl — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:29:41 GMT

@Scooby Doo wrote:
I was able to get an appointment for the first dose, but it's a month in advance. We signed up on line and the system kept crashing. 70,000 seniors in the county trying to sign up for 30,000 doses. We can't sign up for the 2nd dose yet so I don't know how that's going to happen.

@Scooby Doo

I think you'll find once you get into "the system" as having your first shot you automatically are given a date & time for your second shot. Whether that's going to be in person where getting the first one before you leave there or on-line or via phone call I dunno but you MUST get the second one in a given number of days so they want to be sure you are scheduled for #2.

I'm already with the My Chart system from Yale-New Haven Health but since my shot was thru a Hartford Health System I had to go thru getting myself registered into their My Chart system before getting myself set up for a time and place for #2.

Came back to add, once I got to the page for making the 2nd appointment the date for the 2nd shot was already there but I was given the choice of various places and once you choose the location times open came up and you could pick from those. So my comment about being automatically given a date AND TIME wasn't exactly correct in my case. Day yes, time no. I think if you miss the second shot by a certain number of days you have to start over with shot #1 so they would have wasted a shot on you which they don't want to happen.

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tucsongal — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:26:37 GMT

Arizona is dealing with this by county. Pima county doesn’t have enough vaccines to do 75 and older, so you can’t even register yet if you’re 65. You can drive up to Phoenix, but DH would rather wait. We continue to stay home and be very careful but it’s kind of nerve-racking as I am working a little bit every week. Fortunately as a healthcare worker I got my first shot last week. @Meowingkitty glad you got signed up!

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Gorgf — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:16:12 GMT

Nothing new in Wisconsin. The last I heard Green Bay was catching up with medical staff. The State Department of Health Web Site says nothing. A case again for "The Haves and Have Nots!"

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sunshine45 — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:48:33 GMT

maryland here..... we just began phase 1B this week. next week 1C is supposed to begin.

i registered my 80 year old mom last friday on our county website.

she received notification yesterday that she is eligible to now receive the vaccine. they gave me three links for sign up and i was able to register her for her first shot tomorrow.

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Allegheny — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:54:04 GMT

It seems to be a sad state of affairs in Pennsylvania. Today the state put out new quidelines increasing eligibility classification for Phase 1A. DH and I moved from 1B to 1A. The problem is there is no information where/when, who to call to schedule appointments. We are discouraged.

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deeva — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:56:26 GMT

I just finished scheduling an appointment for the vaccine. I'm in Maricopa County in Arizona. There are lots of slots availible if you want to go between midnight and 7am.

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OKPrincess — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:10:19 GMT

I had my first dose this morning. I had to schedule in another county and used within "50 miles" to get my appointment. We drove 43 miles which I wasn't crazy about but we did have a nice lunch at The Mercantile. Of course we ate at 11 am but that was the only way to eat there.

I was given a card and was told to schedule again (via portal) for my second dose on the Feb16. There is a place to select second dose.

All doses given that day at same location will be second doses only. I shouldn't have a problem (oh please).

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hckynut — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:27:48 GMT

@Shanus

My wife just filled out forms for both of us to get the vaccine. It said we would be notified when they become available. It also said "this is not an appointment, just a registration".

They will notify us, I believe, via email so we can fill out the forms for an appointment. Who knows when that will be? My wife is out around more people than I am, so to me her getting it is more important to me. I am not concerned about myself right now.

Who knows, by the time they get around to us! Maybe the Johnson and Johnson 1 shot vaccine will be given!

hckynut