MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS
MA residents, after a shit show for registrations this morning, the dam kinda broke this afternoon and I was able to get 3 people registered today at the MAss Vax sites for next week at Gilette and Fenway. It was a straight shit show from about 7:45 until about 1PM, and then 1PM it started to ease up and by ~3PM I registered 3 people for next week, 1 at gilette and 2 at fenway, and then a friend of mine registered himself for Gilette.
It's now open for 65+. Also check the state guidelines, they adjusted who qualifies for 2 commorbidities, which now includes pregnancy and asthma. Previously asthma (moderate to severe) Was not considered a comorbidity, but now it is (rightly, I think).
Some tips on the MA Registry...
Don't use the "Vax Finder" from MA, use this link:
https://www.maimmunizations.org/clinic/search
THe Vax finder sources its data from that link as best I can tell, but it's behind and incorrect. The Vax Finder is a nicer UI but I found it had incorrect data all day, and using the search was the best bet.
Put in your criteria. your best bet will be Fenway, Gilette, and the Worcester MAx vax site at Worcester State University. WSU might be getting 500 doses tomorrow so be on the look out for that. This is just something that I heard 2nd hand from a Nurse talking about a convo she had wtih a doctor from Umass. Then just keep hammering that search until you see a good number of appts available... like... 100+ I struck out every time there was less than 100 today, but was able to land three for when there was 200+ available at Fenway and Gillette. I don't trust the sites out in Greenfield or North Adams. All day they said they had space and they never worked, I'd get past the insurance information and then it'd say they were all booked, and thena search would still say they had 8-10 slots available. I stopped trying those ones.
Other tips... Get your insurance info ahead of time. You need your insurance provider, the type (Private, medicare, etc), insurance number, group number, name. Get your address info saved in an auto fill you need to enter it twice. get the name you're registerring saved in an auto fill that has to go in at least 3 times.
In my experience if you get to the scheduling page, #9, then it's going to succeed. Mine failed many times at the signature page, but it succeeded every time I got to the scheduling page, 3/3 tries, and for a friend of mine who qualifies it was the same.
THe app will die out, you get 3 different types of errors, two Heroku errors with gray backgrounds, and then one plain white error (there was another maintainance one too but less common). In my experience you can hit Refresh on the HEroku errors and frequently keep going, but if you get the white background with the single line of text, in my experience, that's going to kill it off for a few mins and you may as well start over.
Check your comorbidities. Obesity and asthma are comorbidities, 30+ BMI and moderate to severe asthma, which a lot of people qualify under who might not think they do. Asthma hadn't been considered a comorbidity until just yesterday.
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