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Originally Posted by SGR720
If you've been following any of the vaccine threads here you'll see you are lucky that you got an appointment so quickly but please don't brag about how easy it was. People were in line for hours on Monday and Tuesday due to re-location of site from Sumterville to Wildwood. Many did not get any notification of relocation and went to Sumterville then had to travel back to Wildwood.
If you went to the GMR site at the church you still have to get your second shot in a month and that's when the issues could start. My first shot was easy although I was on the waiting list for a month before I was scheduled and the site for the first shot was changed the day before I was scheduled from Buffalo Ridge to Sumterville. I was not notified of the change by GMR. A friend told me they had been re-located so I checked out the original site early and found it was not active. Went to new site and was in and out in 35 minutes that included 30 minute after shot monitoring.
My second shot was to be at Sumterville next Thursday at 5:30 but now Sumterville is being used for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the GMR Moderna site is at the church in Wildwood and is only open 9 to 5. Today's paper says the church site will be doing shots today and tomorrow but nothing about next week. I won't know until possibly Monday if the site is still in Wildwood. I'm hoping that GMR will actually let me know but so far their communication has not been good.
Be prepared make sure you keep your original confirmation bar code this seems to be
one requirement for getting your second shot and keep checking the newspaper for info on where the GMR site is as there is no guarantee that it will still be in Wildwood.
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Thank you for the intel. I don't remember anyone telling me to keep the barcode (although they may well have and I wasn't being as mindful as I should have been) but fortunately DW was with me and she suggested I keep the barcode in the car for the next visit.
It wasn't my intention to "brag" about my good fortune. I didn't realize that I was just lucky to have such a low hassle experience. I was chalking it up to greater access being available as the process has evolved, and hoping to encourage anyone who wants to get the vaccine, but has been deterred by the stories of how difficult it has been.
Hopefully I'll be able to get DW taken care of, just as easily, as she is in the new age group, between 60 and 65, who can now get the vaccine.