A health care worker draws a dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe for an immunization event in the parking lot of the L.A. Mission on Feb. 24. Credit: AFP via Getty Images Why your health provider doesn't have the coronavirus vaccine: It may come down to influence By Sandra is a 74-year-old woman from Seattle who has diabetes and kidney failure. That means sheâs at risk for very bad outcomes if she gets Covid â but she couldnât get a vaccine appointment. âI am not online, so I wasnât able to go search for different sites around the area that were giving the vaccine,â said Sandra, who asked not to use her last name to protect her privacy. âAnd I donât drive anymore, so it was going to be very difficult just to get to a site.â