How are 16+ year olds getting vaccinated so early in Montgomery County

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the site in Salisbury allows walk-in, why not take your DH there?

Because A. I cannot drive any kind of distance due to health issues, B. he cannot leave me alone that long because of my health issues and if he has a reaction and goes alone its an issue of getting back as I cannot drive that far and C. I spent many hours getting a closer in appointment once he got the letter from work last week approving him.

[Anonymous]

I am a HS teacher. A number of my students have gotten vaccinated either because they work in a job that's covered (e.g. restaurant, grocery store, volunteer EMT) or they have a family that owns a business who was willing to claim they worked there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ I think you have to immediately jump on the appointments. They will be gone if you wait even half an hour.

Yes, but only if you are eligible. I just registered my husband and it took hours. However, we are talking about teens who have had their shot the past few weeks with no health issues who are line jumping. Its amazing how selfish people are. It should be a race to get an appointment for those eligible because people are lying about their status.

If they register by telling the truth and are given appointments, IT ISNT LINE JUMPING. It is acting in the interest of public health. And it is absolutely happening honestly. The days of massive shortages are over.

[Anonymous]

By preregistering and picking salisbury mass vax site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ I think you have to immediately jump on the appointments. They will be gone if you wait even half an hour.

Yes, but only if you are eligible. I just registered my husband and it took hours. However, we are talking about teens who have had their shot the past few weeks with no health issues who are line jumping. Its amazing how selfish people are. It should be a race to get an appointment for those eligible because people are lying about their status.

If they register by telling the truth and are given appointments, IT ISNT LINE JUMPING. It is acting in the interest of public health. And it is absolutely happening honestly. The days of massive shortages are over.

+1000

If you fill out the MoCo registration honestly and are still allowed to make an appointment at an official MoCo site - that is not line jumping.

[Anonymous]

They or their parents are driving to mass vax sites.

[Anonymous]

I pre-registered my kid on the MD site.

Was able to register them for one of the mass vaccination sites, where Hogan said they will take all comers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pre-registered my kid on the MD site.

Was able to register them for one of the mass vaccination sites, where Hogan said they will take all comers.

How did you get from preregistering to registration?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pre-registered my kid on the MD site.

Was able to register them for one of the mass vaccination sites, where Hogan said they will take all comers.

How did you get from preregistering to registration?

I used this site: https://massvax.maryland.gov/

If you enter different locations you’ll see the availability of appointments - for example, enter Ocean City, MD to see Salisbury.

[Anonymous]

Both my teens have beem vaccinated at the M&T Bank site - I was honest and open when I called that they do not fall into any approved category, and I asked if there were cancellation appointments open, and was told no problem they could still make appointments. So no line cutting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They weren't eligible. But state mass sites are not checking when you get (wspecially Salisbury) and lots of walgreens aren't either especially if youre white.

That is patently false. Way to malign teens. My DS said one of his friends had a condition and another one worked in a priority job. Another friend said her DD was surprised to learn that her friends had congenital heart defects, asthma, etc because they had never mentioned. Yes some teens are getting in other states or at mass vaccine sites. Shouldn’t we be happy that so many teens actually want to get vaccinated to protect their health and try to get back to a semblance of life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ I think you have to immediately jump on the appointments. They will be gone if you wait even half an hour.

Yes, but only if you are eligible. I just registered my husband and it took hours. However, we are talking about teens who have had their shot the past few weeks with no health issues who are line jumping. Its amazing how selfish people are. It should be a race to get an appointment for those eligible because people are lying about their status.

If they register by telling the truth and are given appointments, IT ISNT LINE JUMPING. It is acting in the interest of public health. And it is absolutely happening honestly. The days of massive shortages are over.

Lifeguards qualify as public safety workers. I know several teens that have gotten vaccinated under that qualification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pre-registered my kid on the MD site.

Was able to register them for one of the mass vaccination sites, where Hogan said they will take all comers.

How did you get from preregistering to registration?

I used this site: https://massvax.maryland.gov/

If you enter different locations you’ll see the availability of appointments - for example, enter Ocean City, MD to see Salisbury.

I went to that site. One part is to confirm eligibility, so I answered honestly (for myself) and got the following result: "Sorry, you’re not eligible to receive the COVID-19 Vaccination right now. Please check back at a future date as you may become eligible."

FWIW, other than employment categories, here's the eligible categories for teens:

"Marylanders ages 16+ with underlying medical conditions that increase the risk for severe COVID-19 illness
Marylanders ages 16+ with disabilities who are receiving SSI or SSDI benefits"

It's possible that the website sometimes lets people through erroneously, but it's also possible that people are falsely "confirming" that their kids are eligible, and that that's how they're getting the shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pre-registered my kid on the MD site.

Was able to register them for one of the mass vaccination sites, where Hogan said they will take all comers.

How did you get from preregistering to registration?

I used this site: https://massvax.maryland.gov/

If you enter different locations you’ll see the availability of appointments - for example, enter Ocean City, MD to see Salisbury.

This is what we did for DS 16. You pre-register, answer all questions honestly, and then wait for a call when you come up to the top of the line to make an appointment. We did this on Saturday and received a call to make an appointment on Sunday, and scheduled for later this week. When you pre-register, you select your first choice of location, and then give additional backup choices. We picked Greenbelt because it’s the closest to us. Greenbelt is being run by FEMA and apparently is schedule it Phase 3, presumably because there aren’t enough Phase 2’s pre-registering for that location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ He preregistered through MoCo and was immediately allowed to make an appt. He has no special risks, etc and was totally honest about that.

Calling bs on this. My spouse is pre-registratered everywhere (moco, state etc.) And we've just received informational emails. Not the registration email. He must have checked off a risk group.