I just got off the phone discussing my registration to receive the covid vaccine with a

[abqtommy]

person from the New Mexico Department Of Health. They said that the vaccine has just
been opened up to my age group (under 75 years old) so to just be patient and I should
get scheduled soon. That doesn't explain why my 38-year-old son got his first Pfizer jab
last Saturday. But the system is working.

I'm a determined and patient guy. I've been masking, distancing and sanitizing for
over a year now and plan to continue that even after I get my jab. So far so good!

[triron]

1. Contact Vida pharmacy. That's how I was able to get my 1st Pfizer here in Abq.

I only found out about them a couple weeks ago. It worked for me.

[abqtommy]

2. Thanks for that good info.

[Dale in Laurel MD]

3. I've lost count of how many waiting lists I'm on.

At 75 I've been eligible for a month now, but the word is always either "no vaccine" or "no appointments available."

[fierywoman]

4. FWIW I'm in WA state and put my name on a waiting list or two and one came through

a few weeks later. Got my first shot last Sunday at a place that was doing 3,000 shots that day. Super well organized and massively FRIENDLY. Very easy.

[SeattleVet]

10. Was that at the Lumen Field Event Center vaccination site in Seattle?

We got our first Pfizer shot there on the 13th, and have the second scheduled for April 3.

140 injection stations - and they are super organized and efficient throughout the process. From the time we parked (free parking in the garage) until we returned to the car was under a half hour, including the checkin, injection, and observation period. Even getting to the garage was a breeze with SPD directing traffic in the area.

They have the capacity to ramp up to 22,000 shots a day as vaccine supplies become available.

[fierywoman]

12. No, it was Virginia Mason hospital at the Amazon Meeting place in Seattle -- sounds

like it was run similarly to yours. There was literally at least one volunteer at ever turn you could possibly make (even in the parking garage) and they were super friendly and really (infectiously) happy --it gave me great hope for the future. Amazing feeling of community in action.

[Retrograde]

5. I wonder if this is causing some of the problems

Multiple people hearing that it's hard to get an appointment signing up on as many lists as they can, making it look like there's more demand than there actually is, then grabbing multiple appointments if they can but only showing up for one.

Maybe it's where I live, or just luck, or assuming that there would eventually be enough to go around and since I've been housebound for a year another few months wouldn't matter much so I didn't go chasing after appointments, but I was able to get one being on just one list after it opened up to 65+.

[abqtommy]

6. I know that on the sign-up webpage for the Department Of Health here there's a box to

check if you've already gotten a vaccine elsewhere. That way they can remove you from
their list and relieve some of the congestion. It is pretty organized for humans being involved in planning and getting it done.

[csziggy]

9. I signed up on two places - my doctor's page and the county health department

My doctor's office came through first, I got my shots February 23 and March 16.

A few days after the second jab I got an email from the county health department with a number to call to make an appointment but also saying if I'd gotten my vaccinations elsewhere, just not call. I'd tried to find out how to get off their list when my first shot was scheduled, but they didn't have one, so I was happy to see they had taken that possibility under consideration.

[seaglass]

7. I found a vaccine in MA today using a bot on Twitter for MA vaccines. If you use Facebook there is a

Maryland Vaccine Hunter group you could join (I don't have FB so haven't checked this personally).

I feel your frustration. This week I just became eligible along with a big group including grocery/retail/public works etc. so I thought I'd never get an appointment. The son of a friend told us about the Twitter bots and it worked out well this morning.

Good luck to you!

[Deminpenn]

8. There could be missing information on your

registration even though you gave all the information that was requested. That's what happened to me. As soon as I spoke to a person doing the scheduling and provided the additional information, got scheduled right away.

[LisaL]

11. I don't know about New Mexico, but in my state,

places that administer vaccines, such as pharmacies, have their own sites where you can sign up if they have appointments available.