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In reply to the discussion: U.S. sees significant drop in vaccinations over past week [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,908 posts)notably in urban areas, where you have many home-bound who are not in facilities (and may or may not have a professional caretaker), cannot just go to some stadium or convention center and stand in line to get a shot (nor do they have transportation to a drive-through site if one is even available), or even if relatively ambulatory, cannot be so for extended periods of time. So it comes down to something akin to getting out a vote - by "door-to-door canvassing" and offering "house visits" to get one. Additionally even having a mobile van/trailer like those Red Cross units, that can drive through towns or neighborhoods and offer a shot, might make a difference.
Sometimes I sense a level of tone-deafness among many Health Departments that are perhaps attributing a lack of interest to "hesitancy" versus a real lack of EASY access.
I think many (and I was one) prefer going to a local pharmacy just due to being a known element that is usually close to home. And although my regular pharmacy is doing them, at the time that I inquired, they were narrowed to a very specific population and screw everyone else (and ironically when they first started offering the shots, a supposed "glitch" in their scheduling had city-located branches actually rejecting city residents for appointments claiming they "weren't eligible", and only accepting suburbanites with non-city zips). The same type of phenomena was discovered even before the glitch at that chain.
Meanwhile I was finally able to find an independent pharmacy not far from where I grew up and also a few miles from where I currently live, and got my 1st shot there last month and my 2nd there yesterday. I had signed up with my city's (Philly) "vaccine interest" site back in January and heard absolutely nothing until last week. But by then, it was too late since I was already doing a scheduled 2-shot regime, and their offer was only for a site 12 miles away from me downtown at the PA Convention Center (uh nope nope nope...).
This week they finally got a bit desperate here due to the sudden drop-off of appointments locally and started offering walk-ups at the big sites, but I think by now, many who are left were just fed up with the nonsense and system-gaming and plan to wait until it is more convenient.