Florida

and again today trying to get an appointment through the Publix website. Before that we wasted similar amounts of time trying to get appointments with the Health Department. My rough guess is there are around 200K people over 65 who are eligible to get the vaccine in this county. Publix gave out about 12K appointments in Pinellas this week. These Internet stampedes are a stupid way to schedule appointments and waste huge amounts of time. The Publix page refreshes every 60 seconds, so people have to sit and check their screens for about an hour, only to be told the appointments are fully booked. The Pinellas County Health Department says it is now doing second doses and is not offering new appointments. I don't trust anything this state does, but I don't think ineligible people are getting the vaccine at highly visible locations. There is a residency requirement, but what it would take to meet it would not be hard for a wealthy person to accomplish.