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Originally Posted by issybird
I know the distribution center nearest me is a drive-through, which presupposes being able to drive or having a relative or friend who’s willing to ferry you. I wonder if Uber’s doing a vaccination business? But for those with mobility issues the drive-through seems a lot more convenient and that’s in addition to the benefit of not being inside a facility with a lot of frustrated people.
It seems every state has its horror stories. I think I saw that it rolled out smoothly in West Virginia?
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Some counties have a few drive through sites, but most of the sites are walk through. People have been standing in line for up to 11 hours in some cases then told to go home because they ran out of vaccines before they got to them. My county doesn't allow us to choose the site, if it is a county site, they select which one and the time and notify you a day or two ahead of time. We are allowed to go to non-county sites if we can find one, but most don’t have enough vaccines so we get turned down. Some sites, like my doctor's office, have never been able to get any vaccines even though they were approved to get them several months ago.
Basically, the Federal system decides how many vaccines a state gets and does the arrangements to ship them. The state then decides where and how many vaccines get distributed to counties/metro areas, and the state decides who qualifies for a vaccine. The local governments then decide where the vaccine will be administered and how. So every location (county/city) is unique, which makes it confusing. I live in the SW part of the Dallas/Fort Worth metro which is composed of 7.6 million people in six or more counties and dozens of cities. The local news media tries to give us directions, but they only know the directions for some counties and some cities. My city is too small to have a vaccine administering site, so I have to go through my county or find an independent site, and independent sites are virtually non-existent. I applied a few weeks ago and still have not heard back from the county. The counties and cities are simply too swamped to be efficient yet.
So for now I need to be patient and continue to stay at home as far from other people as possible. The first part is hard! The second is pretty much what I do anyway since I’m old and don't have family nearby nor much of a reason to get out in public except to get groceries, go to doctor visits, and a few things like that. The ones I feel sorry for or those who are at high risk and have no choice but to be around other people quite a bit.