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On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:12:38 -0800 (PST), trader_4
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On Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 3:10:33 PM UTC-5,
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On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 12:28:51 -0800 (PST), trader_4
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Got lucky, just got the call from the county health dept, which
is one of the places I registered. Good thing I pursued many
avenues, I registered at about 8 places.
Be sure you cancel the rest of them. Part of the gridlock problem is
people slamming every available server requesting an appointment for
one shot. Then they don't show up and the vaccine might be wasted.
We have people hanging around the vaccination stations, just hoping to
"scalp" a dose left by a no-show.

No way to cancel at any of the places I registered with, about 7 of them.
But there isn't any risk of anything being wasted. This is just
registration
to be notified when you can make an appointment. And even then they
don't appear to be waiting very long, they notify way more people than
they
have vaccine for. You would think that once they notified you via text or
email
they would tell you that they have a spot available, you need to now make
the appointment by midnight tomorrow. Instead, a friend of mine got
notified from one of the 6 NJ state megasites that he registered with via
email around 8PM. They said they had appointments available,
gave him a code to go online and make one. By the time he saw the
email and got to the website,
it was 75 mins later. He filled out the questionare for the appointment,
at the end it said, sorry, no more appointments available, nothing about
what to do next.

Now next thing, you'd think that once selected, you should be at the top
of the list when they get vaccine. But it's been about a week and he's
heard nothing more, so it looks like you go back into the big pool with
everyone else. He's 76, pre-existing conditions, so he's clearly in the
active pool. So, it's one big cluster f***. Fortunately for him, he got
lucky and heard by word of mouth to try a county near him in NC
where he lives part time. He got through by phone and got the vaccine.

So I'll see when and if I get contacted by the 7 other places I'm
registered
with. All this is govt incompetence, both from the Trump administration
and
the states. They had 9 months to get this right, to have people register
starting in Sept or Oct., to have websites and phone banks that could
handle it, to do it by first letter of your last name to avoid a rush,
etc.
But the US has fallen badly and can't get up. We have the death numbers
to prove it. As I've said before, where were the plans to quickly bring
up
more lines to make any of the six vaccines that panned out? We should
be hearing that there will be new lines producing the two vaccines
coming on line next month, etc. Instead that dope Trump refused an
offer from Pfizer to play more orders, Biden had to do it, that vaccine
isn't coming until summer. There should have been plans to replicate
any of the 6 vaccine lines to make enough to get 80% of Americans
vaccinated in 6 months. Make sure the equipment is available, use
DPA. Instead Trump declared that we were in a war, then surrendered
and chose lying and denial.

I don't know if you noticed but Biden is the president now

Yep

and this is all on him

Nope

if you really believe the president
has anything to do with it at all.

Nope, not if Trump had ****ed it up previously and
had let hordes of infected people enter the country.

I don't.

Once the vaccines are allocated to the states, the feds are out of it.
I do agree there should be a single portal to sign up and it sounds
like when they actually get the private pharmacies doing this in any
meaningful way they will be using the computer network that pharmacies
already have in place.
This is still a vaccine shortage problem tho and will not be solved
until they can keep up with demand.