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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
I literally just missed getting a vaccine appointment for my mother at Rite Aid. Not once but twice. First time the calendar slot filled just as I hit submit. Second time I’d filled out all the info like ethnicity and health, hit submit, boom, it was gone to somebody else. I feel like I failed somehow.
I do think LT’s tip about Rite Aid releasing appointments at midnight is correct, though. It was exactly midnight when the slots became available.
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This happened to me a couple times (though I think with Giant and Safeway, grocery store pharmacies), and it was SO frustrating. Like I got to the end, filled out all the info, and it was like, "Nope, sorry!" Someone in a Vaccine Hunters group I was in said the one site was like a video game, where you just had to keep mashing buttons (clicking on dates again and again) in the hopes of getting through. And that seemed accurate. Registering to get a vaccine shouldn't be like that...
Hope you can find her one soon. You've likely already thought of this, but if it's a form you have to fill out with name, address, etc., it can help to have all the info in a Word doc that you can just copy/paste. But I know some of it is checking boxes, too.
If she has CVS near her, try there, too. I know in my state, they just increased the number of CVS locations that distribute the vaccine--not sure if that's a national thing or not. I've read conflicting things about when they release appointments though.
My parents and in-laws have now all managed to either get their first shot or have it scheduled (MIL tomorrow). Though they mostly did it themselves (I got my MIL one, but she'd gotten one at exactly the same moment, so had to cancel it).