[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

From what I understand, by counting the number of doses sent to the sites by the federal government and the number of people trying to get an appointment, you have somewhere between a ten percent and twenty percent chance of getting an appointment.


I was lucky. I was one of the ten to twenty percent. I got my first shot at Publix and was scheduled that day for my second shot exactly four weeks later. I did have to drive to Deland and will again, but I don't think that it is that big of a deal. Do I wish that I could have gotten it closer to home? Of course but if you want it, you have to be somewhat flexible. I'm easily willing to drive and hour.

Yesterday, I was told by someone that got his first shot that she was told that she would get a call to get his second shot. That doesn't seem like a very good system.

I also heard of some sites that are not requiring appointments. First come first served. I've heard of some people that have waited in their car for hours only to be told that they have run out of vaccine.

There is a big learning curve with this thing. Nothing like this has ever really been done before except for perhaps the Salk polio vaccine in 1955. In that case it was only being delivered to school children and there were shortages as well. Also, the Salk vaccine didn't have to be stored at -95 degrees F. It was also pretty simple to get it to schoolchildren by simply sending it to the schools. This is very different.

So all I can say is to be patient. You will eventually get your vaccine and as more and more people get it, the odds of getting an appointment will get much better.

I think that some people thought that 660,000,000 doses were going to be manufactured, distributed and delivered into arms within a few weeks. This is a massive project and it's going to take time. At that rate that we're going I think that everyone in the country that wants to be vaccinated will be by the summer. And it may be sooner because as I said, the more people that get the vaccine, the less will be looking to get it so your odds will improve.