“If you’re an essential worker who has one day off and a limited window, and we’re not even talking about transportation and the hopscotch going around across the boroughs, suddenly the window for what you can do is limited,” Kalita said.īut unlike Rao’s, securing a vaccine booking isn’t impossible - and millions of doses have already been administered across the five boroughs. There’s also a “disconnect” between the times of day appointments are available and the limited schedules of many essential workers, she noted. Those who are eligible for a COVID-19 dose have to wade through a series of notoriously clunky websites for elusive appointments that get snatched up quickly. Mitra Kalita, the publisher of Epicenter-NYC - a newsletter that now has a network of volunteers who are scheduling appointments for the public - says the confounding system is particularly “a deterrent” for people who aren’t digitally savvy or don’t have the time to check multiple websites. It requires checking many different websites and generally people who are not tech savvy or don’t have hours of free time are just not able to navigate their way through the process,” Councilman Mark Levine, the chair of the council’s Committee on Health and a frequent critic on the vaccine rollout, told The Post. “It’s a totally disjointed and confusing process to get an appointment. Those who are eligible for a coveted dose have to wade through a series of notoriously clunky websites - with no coordination between city, state and private sites or systems - searching for elusive appointments that get snatched up as quickly as they become available. Searching for a coronavirus vaccine appointment in the Big Apple can feel like the pandemic equivalent of trying to book a table at Rao’s - everybody wants in, but you may as well fuhgeddaboudit. has the White House sweating, and rightly so WH mandates masks, social distancing for unvaxxed - despite emergency’s end in AprilĭeSantis will beat Trump on COVID - unless he blows it This lingering symptom still affects millions years after COVID infection
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