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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MoCo site has a county pre-regi and links to hospitals.  
Getting on the hospital sites are like trying to score tickets to a concert that sells out in 3 minutes.    "new slots on Thurs. at 4:00"     Come back and fill out form then.  Oops!   All slots gone already.   [/quote]

Right, which is why letting the hospitals contact patients directly instead seems just as good.[/quote]

I appreciate the thoughtful responses above. However, if the hospitals linked their slots to the city portal, that would also be 'more slots for everyone'- it comes out the same numbers, but more transparent. This is from Mary Cheh's newsletter today. See bolded: "A better sign-up experience" for those who who happened to have visited a hospital in the past two years. Huh.

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The reason it's a better experience is that you don't actually do anything, you just wait for the hospital to (eventually) get around to calling you. That doesn't mean you get the vaccine any faster; if you're able to book an appointment through the city's system, in fact, you probably get it sooner that way. I'm also not sure it's worth whatever effort would be required to link seven different hospital vaccination programs up to the city's portal, just to schedule appointments back at those hospitals. [/quote]

MedStar sent me this message after I signed up to be notified (in priority group 1c in D.C., which theoretically is eligible starting Monday, due to underlying chronic disease): "Thank you for submitting your MedStar Health COVID-19 vaccine request form. We will reach out to schedule your vaccine once you become eligible." That is definitely a better experience than feeling like you have to refresh a website madly to schedule something, but I don't really expect it to mean I get faster service.[/quote]

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