Like scoring Elvis tickets Joe Biden has vowed vaccine eligibility for

SAN FRANCISCO  Harry Toy has a health condition that made him eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine before others his age, but he couldn’t land an appointment no matter what he tried. Getting on his computer at 6 a.m. and checking California’s My Turn web page or the CVS.com site proved fruitless. So Toy, 62, sought the help of his sister. Her husband, whose magic touch at the keyboard had led to her getting vaccinated, was able to find an appointment for Toy just as California was opening eligibility for all people 50 and older last week.“It’s really difficult. It’s just knowing to stay on the site, and just keep checking," Elizabeth Angeles said as she and the newly inoculated Toy walked out of a mass vaccination center in San Francisco on Thursday. “And you have to be fast, because sometimes you enter all your information, and by the time you think you’re done, the appointment is gone. My husband got mad at me because he said my email address was too long."Even those with fast fingers and short email addresses, figure to encounter abundant frustration securing vaccination appointments when the eligibility floodgates open for most Americans later this month. President Joe Biden on Tuesday bumped up expectations by saying all adults will be eligible for a vaccine by April 19, after previously announcing 90% would qualify by that date and all by May 1.“No more confusing rules, no more confusing restrictions," Biden said. "Many states have already opened up to all of those, but beginning April 19th ... every adult in this country is eligible to get to the line to get a COVID vaccination."Eligibility and availability are not the same, as Biden seemed to imply by emphasizing the words "get to the line." With millions more people able to pursue those elusive shots, the picture of a free-for-all April 19 emerges, prompting one expert to compare the likely scenario to trying to score Elvis Presley tickets. At the same time, the expert and others in the medical field say growing supply will meet demand in a few weeks, and it will just take some time and patience for all who want a vaccine dose to get it.“Expanding to open eligibility will lead to that initial rush of eligible individuals who have been champing at the bit to get the vaccines, navigating the system, signing on the minute they’re eligible," said Jason L. Schwartz, assistant professor of health policy at Yale University and a member of the Connecticut vaccine advisory committee.“But the good thing is we’re now moving to such a significant vaccine-supply situation that, that period is going to be very short-lived. Very quickly, really in a matter of weeks after each state moves to open eligibility, we’re going to shift to a very different phase in the vaccine rollout where we will have plenty of doses available.


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