email article I don't know why the media are bellyaching about how hard it is for ordinary people to get the COVID vaccine. It took me less than 2 weeks to secure an appointment, and I only have to wait another 6 weeks to receive the actual jab. I'm 65 and live in Pittsburgh -- a big city with two big health systems and thousands of providers. So naturally it wasn't going to be difficult to get the vaccine. Here's all I had to do, beginning Jan. 19 when the state moved everyone age 65-75, as well as people with any of the familiar list of comorbidities, into phase 1a of the distribution: