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m_d_hUnlike DC, MD does not have a one-stop pre-registration website. Instead, each of 305 vaccine locations in the state has its own website. This is ridiculous, but the reality.
So what do you do? You type in your zip code to get dots on the map for each of 305 vaccine locations and you click on them one-by-one and check the boxes and prove you're not a robot ... and then learn there are no appointments available, period. Go on to the next one, same story. You could do this for all 305 locations in the state, maybe one of them has an appointment available, if you're willing and able to drive for a couple hours. As I'm not actually eligible yet, I'm not going to sit here and click on all 305 locations just to see. But if I were eligible -- I might. All 305 locations.
Obviously we need some sort of central filter that lets everybody know which locations, if any, actually have appointments available. I would drive to anywhere in the state to get my shot.
There is a quiet etiquette emerging now that involves holding your tongue when you come upon a young friend or colleague posting her vaccination shot on Instagram even though she would seem to fit no criteria for eligibility.
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Meanwhile, Science magazine estimates the US will have enough excess, extra doses, by the end of July to vaccinate an additional 200 million people. They mean, after we've vaccinated our entire population of 330 million, we'll still have enough leftover to vaccinate another 200 million people. By July.
So, sometime in the next four months, there will be plenty for everybody. Biden says by the end of May. But for now, finding a shot in Maryland is nearly impossible.
Ideally, in Bug's ideal world, there would be one federal website/phone number for everybody to pre-register and then it would notify people when their shots are available. Why some of the trillions in "COVID relief" wasn't spent on a national vaccination distribution system is a mystery.
So what do you do? You type in your zip code to get dots on the map for each of 305 vaccine locations and you click on them one-by-one and check the boxes and prove you're not a robot ... and then learn there are no appointments available, period. Go on to the next one, same story. You could do this for all 305 locations in the state, maybe one of them has an appointment available, if you're willing and able to drive for a couple hours. As I'm not actually eligible yet, I'm not going to sit here and click on all 305 locations just to see. But if I were eligible -- I might. All 305 locations.
Obviously we need some sort of central filter that lets everybody know which locations, if any, actually have appointments available. I would drive to anywhere in the state to get my shot.
There is a quiet etiquette emerging now that involves holding your tongue when you come upon a young friend or colleague posting her vaccination shot on Instagram even though she would seem to fit no criteria for eligibility.
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Meanwhile, Science magazine estimates the US will have enough excess, extra doses, by the end of July to vaccinate an additional 200 million people. They mean, after we've vaccinated our entire population of 330 million, we'll still have enough leftover to vaccinate another 200 million people. By July.
So, sometime in the next four months, there will be plenty for everybody. Biden says by the end of May. But for now, finding a shot in Maryland is nearly impossible.
Ideally, in Bug's ideal world, there would be one federal website/phone number for everybody to pre-register and then it would notify people when their shots are available. Why some of the trillions in "COVID relief" wasn't spent on a national vaccination distribution system is a mystery.