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I've had to make several vaccine appointments for my senior parents, my special needs brother, me, and my kids with mitochondrial disease. Every state is different. In our state, we all qualify. Except for our 11 year old (who is too young). We've all had our first vaccines. I was able to get these appointments at 3 different vaccine sites.
Here are my tips.
1) If you are not computer savvy or do not have a computer, ask a friend to make your appointment for you. My parents and brother never would have gotten appointments.
2) If you hear of a friend getting an appointment, ask how they did it. Online, link, day of week, time of day?
3) Keep trying. Around the clock anytime I was awake, I'd try the various sites.
4) Over time I learned which sites released appointments what days and times. One site released them far out once a week. One site released all the next week appointments at 8 a.m on the prior Friday. One site released them every weekday at 8:30 a.m. for appointments 7 days out.
5) Once I figured out when a site released appointments, I'd push refresh on the site for the 5 minutes following expected release. Example, the site that released new appointments for 7 days out at 8:30 a.m., at around 8:33 am after pushing refresh multiple times I'd be able to get one appointment for a family member before they'd all disappear. So doing this a few days in a row, I was able to get several family members appointments at this site.
6) I had to learn what each site asked for and type very quickly. Example, I needed everyone's birthdays and social security numbers readily available. I learned if I took time to put in insurance information (insurance company, group number, member i.d.), that would lead to me losing the appointment to someone else. Best to put "no insurance" and N/A quickly and present insurance card at site on the day of the vaccine. Also if they list multiple times dont pick top ones or bottom ones, as more people do that and again they'll disappear.
7) If you get an appointment a long way out, take it and keep looking for a sooner appointment. When you get one, you can cancel the farther out appointment. People cancel appointments. So keep checking.
8) Its a numbers game, you're more likely to win the more you play. So keep checking the sites.
9) Be careful of hackers that create fake vaccine websites. They want your information.
I hope this helps!
Here are my tips.
1) If you are not computer savvy or do not have a computer, ask a friend to make your appointment for you. My parents and brother never would have gotten appointments.
2) If you hear of a friend getting an appointment, ask how they did it. Online, link, day of week, time of day?
3) Keep trying. Around the clock anytime I was awake, I'd try the various sites.
4) Over time I learned which sites released appointments what days and times. One site released them far out once a week. One site released all the next week appointments at 8 a.m on the prior Friday. One site released them every weekday at 8:30 a.m. for appointments 7 days out.
5) Once I figured out when a site released appointments, I'd push refresh on the site for the 5 minutes following expected release. Example, the site that released new appointments for 7 days out at 8:30 a.m., at around 8:33 am after pushing refresh multiple times I'd be able to get one appointment for a family member before they'd all disappear. So doing this a few days in a row, I was able to get several family members appointments at this site.
6) I had to learn what each site asked for and type very quickly. Example, I needed everyone's birthdays and social security numbers readily available. I learned if I took time to put in insurance information (insurance company, group number, member i.d.), that would lead to me losing the appointment to someone else. Best to put "no insurance" and N/A quickly and present insurance card at site on the day of the vaccine. Also if they list multiple times dont pick top ones or bottom ones, as more people do that and again they'll disappear.
7) If you get an appointment a long way out, take it and keep looking for a sooner appointment. When you get one, you can cancel the farther out appointment. People cancel appointments. So keep checking.
8) Its a numbers game, you're more likely to win the more you play. So keep checking the sites.
9) Be careful of hackers that create fake vaccine websites. They want your information.
I hope this helps!