Huzzah!
Is your region only offering shots in one location? I found out (too late to be useful) that I could have had my second shot at any location offering Pfizer, not just with the provider that gave me my first, even though my first was arranged in part through my employer.
There have to be incentives. That we have vaccinated this many people relying on people’s common sense to register has been a positive surprise, but it won’t last.
Meanwhile:
There are two county-managed locations, but the closest one never seems to have available appointment dates. I’ve tried after midnight, just before business hours, and various times throughout the day. Both locations use the same scheduling tool, but the center I visited today probably gets more doses.
Disturbing news:
At a news conference Thursday, he also said people in the age range of 30 to 70 are dying of COVID-19 before seeking medical help because they are not recognizing their symptoms as requiring hospitalization until it is too late.
“Many of these people were found deceased,” he said, something he said has never been seen in Ontario throughout the pandemic.
It’s not that people were ignoring symptoms, Huyer said: “People were in stable condition and then deteriorated very quickly to their unfortunate deaths.”
Their country’s health system is melting down right now but they also want to get back to work immediately
It’s similar here. There’s a place less than a mile away that’s meant to be a “mass vaccination” site, and a pharmacy the same distance away that should be cranking, but we couldn’t get in at either place so ended up driving an hour away.
I also find driving extra stressful after the long hiatus.
But congrats on getting your first shot!!! 
I think I had a deja-vu.
Looks like the conspiracy fools have met their nightmare
No doubt this needs to be looked at very carefully, and the odds that a similar link to clots could exist are probably decently high. However it looks like this article is based more on a virologist’s hunch than on a lot of hard data:
Naturally the makers of the Sputnik vaccine deny any link, but at this stage in the game I’d attribute that more to absence of evidence rather than evidence of absence. I don’t think that Sputnik has had as wide a roll-out as AZ or J&J yet so it would be hard to know.
Definitely something that scientists have been investigating though:
Eschaton
Friday, April 23, 2021
Vaccine Machine Slows Down
Not a lot but the daily dose average has been declining.
I do think that in The Discourse there has been much more concern with the problem of vaccine hesitation rather than the easier problem of people who are Not Very Online With Flexible Schedules.
Send them around in ice cream trucks. Whatever. Focus on getting them to everyone who wants them more than trying to convince MAGA chuds.
You mean not in the arm?
I got my first one yesterday too. Moderna!
More deja-vu.
