My parents are eligible for the COVID vaccine in Chattanooga and have gone three times to try to get it. This morning, they set their alarm at 6am because the place opened at 9am.

They were sent home around 8am, because there were more people in line than there were doses.
Look... we have taxpayer info. If we lived in a world with unified healthcare, then you could give people appointments and they could go in.

Would things get off schedule? Sure.

But my 82-year-old parents wouldn't be talking about camping out to get a vaccine.
And now I've learned that they were turned away because a road sign was "inaccurate" and they could have gotten the vaccine this morning.

More vaccines are available tomorrow, for the 2nd half of the alphabet. They did the 1st half of the alphabet today.

newschannel9.com/news/coronavir…
I've signed up for the newsletter to find out more information and got this gem, which again, a unified healthcare system would have solved.

"The Health Department is unable to predict how many doses are shipped to them and the amount varies from shipment to shipment."

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