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Peregrine Took

(7,567 posts) Tue Feb 9, 2021, 03:48 PM Feb 2021

I got a Covid Shot appointment finally! Here's the link:

Yesterday I joined the neighborhood forum, Nextdoor where a conversation had just begun on the miseries people were going through in Chicago to try to schedule an appointment.
90 year olds are having to get up at 5 in the morning to try to get on a Walgreen's or Mariano's site and cadge a date.
All because trump had not ordered enough vaccine last summer we had to pay the price.

Here's the link to UIC register as a guest (1st have to say you are a patient)

Good luck I'm so relieved I feel I won the lottery.

https://hospital.uillinois.edu/primary-and-specialty-care/infectious-diseases/covid-19-coronavirus/vaccine

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I got a Covid Shot appointment finally! Here's the link: (Original Post) Peregrine Took Feb 2021 OP

I have an appointment for tomorrow frazzled Feb 2021 #1

Hmmmm....my long time specialist is there. Never heard a peep. Peregrine Took Feb 2021 #3

Are you registered in the My NM Chart? frazzled Feb 2021 #4

It's that way throughout the country. SergeStorms Feb 2021 #2

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

1. I have an appointment for tomorrow

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2021, 03:55 PM

Feb 2021

Since I have primary care through a Northwestern Memorial Hospital doctor and maintain a NM Chart account, the hospital emailed weeks ago they would contact me. I’d given up hope they would, and also registered many other places, to no avail. But they wrote yesterday and I am going Wednesday morning!

I hope my husband gets his email soon.

Peregrine Took

(7,567 posts)

3. Hmmmm....my long time specialist is there. Never heard a peep.

Reply to frazzled (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:32 PM

Feb 2021

Very disappointed in them.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

4. Are you registered in the My NM Chart?

Reply to Peregrine Took (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 11, 2021, 02:40 PM

Feb 2021

That will put you automatically on the list. I’m not sure if it is also required that you saw that specialist within the past 18 months.

I received my notice on Feb. 8, but my husband had not. We worried he had gotten lost in the system. Bingo, he got the notice saying he was now eligible to schedule his vaccine late yesterday afternoon. I think they’re progressing downward by age through their system (I’m 70, he turns 69 next week).

SergeStorms

(19,487 posts)

2. It's that way throughout the country.

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2021, 04:37 PM

Feb 2021

It's not just Chicago, believe me. I made an appointment for March 15, and I have to drive 60 miles to get that. I live in a fairly well populated area of New York, so it's not like I'm way out in the boonies somewhere. That's just the way it is right now. Thanks, Drumpf.

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