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Three months ago, I was waking up an hour early every morning to try to find my 66-year-old dad an appointment for the COVID vaccine. I’d open tabs for appointments at city-run sites, state-run sites, and local pharmacies, and refresh refresh refresh, sometimes watching an appointment pop up only for it to disappear as soon as I clicked it. Eventually, I nabbed one, and a month later my partner and I repeated the process for ourselves when we became eligible. But the refreshing, the anxiety, the waiting for new appointments to drop was the hallmark of the experience, and the reward was the shot in the arm and the knowledge that soon I could finally hug my family forced distant by the pandemic once again.
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Did you hear people talk about why they hadn’t gotten the shot yet?
I was one of the vaccinators. People told us that they had been thinking about it, but it wasn’t a priority Now we were giving them something that they liked in a place where they like to go. So they thought, “Why not? I’ll do it.” People told me they were excited that they weren’t planning to get a vaccine but did want one. Or they hadn’t made a solid plan. There were some people who had questions, and I was there to answer those questions. And so this was the tipping point that changed their mind and motivated them to get a vaccine that day. We were also able to get people that work at the restaurant, the kitchen and the brewery, who hadn’t planned on getting vaccinated. We made it easy for them. It just takes a few minutes just to get the vaccine. We watched them for 15 minutes, and then they’re good to go.
Erie Co. to work with community providers to help vaccinate teens
ECDOH will give Pfizer doses to doctors offices for teenagers.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â 30% of 16 and 17 year olds in Erie County have at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Erie County. Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein said the county is looking to raise the vaccination rate in teenagers. We re trying really hard to work with our community providers that see adolescents, because we re able to accept those large doses of Pfizer and then distribute the smaller aliquots to the community providers who take care of these adolescents and they can vaccinate them in their own offices, Burstein said.