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tlongII said:
Just checked again this morning. No appointments available. This is fucking ridiculous.
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Don't overlook getting signed up with Albertsons/Safeway and Costco. According to The Oregonian, they're supposed to get doses this week and will have their own scheduling systems on their websites:

The vast majority of the vaccine doses that Oregon is receiving through the program this week will go to Safeway and Albertsons pharmacies across the state. The two grocery chains share common ownership and operate in tandem.

Company spokesman Jill McGinnis said they anticipate approximately 11,500 doses to be shipped to 115 Albertsons and Safeway pharmacies in Oregon.

All but four of the company’s Oregon pharmacies are expected to receive doses. The Albertsons locations in Hillsboro and Bend, the Safeway in St. Helens and the company’s stand alone pharmacy in Myrtle Creek will not receive doses.

Eligible Oregonians will be able to sign up for appointments online through Albertsons and Safeway sometime later this week by visiting www.albertsons.com/COVID-19 and www.safeway.com/COVID-19. McGinnis did not yet know when appointment slots would open. She said that Oregonians who don’t have access to the internet can call their pharmacies directly to try to schedule appointments.

“The online scheduler will open in conjunction with our receiving of the doses,” McGinnis said. “It is not open currently. We ask that the public continue to check over the course of the week and appreciate their patience.”

Vaccine doses will also be going to 13 Costco locations statewide, according to the company’s website. Those stores are in Albany, Aloha, Bend, Central Point, Clackamas, Eugene, Hillsboro, Portland, Roseburg, Salem, Tigard, Warrenton and Wilsonville.

Individuals will be able to sign up for appointments by visiting https://www.costco.com/covid-vaccine.html. Appointments were not yet available Tuesday and a Costco spokesman would not answer questions about the company’s participation in the vaccine program.
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https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavi...ronavirus-vaccine-appointments-this-week.html
 
Hoopguru said:
Its a joke that in the 21st century, with state of the art distribution software the private industry uses, the State of Oregon cannot keep pace with technology that equates to efficiency and superb service. Oh, that right they don't have any competition or performance marks to consider. I dealt with the State of Oregon for decades and they were always behind when it came to logistics and process.
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e_blazer said:
Don't worry, I hear that they're getting the IT guys from the Unemployment Dept. to work on the scheduling app.
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BigGameDamian said:
It's a shit show! We are wwaaayyyy behind.
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States ranked by percentage of COVID-19 vaccines administered: Feb. 10

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https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...entage-of-covid-19-vaccines-administered.html

 
SlyPokerDog said:
States ranked by percentage of COVID-19 vaccines administered: Feb. 10

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https://www.beckershospitalreview.c...entage-of-covid-19-vaccines-administered.html
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We're talking about the current program to vaccinate the general public, dog. The hospitals took care of administering doses to healthcare workers. The schools pretty much organized getting teachers vaccinated. The state has only had a year to plan for vaccinating the general public. It's understandable that nobody knows what the heck is going on.
 
e_blazer said:
We're talking about the current program to vaccinate the general public, dog. The hospitals took care of administering doses to healthcare workers. The schools pretty much organized getting teachers vaccinated. The state has only had a year to plan for vaccinating the general public. It's understandable that nobody knows what the heck is going on.
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I'm not trying to defend Brown or the job she's done with covid, I'm just saying that following the instructions that were told to the public, I was able to get my dad an appointment for Friday and Mrs Spd was able to get her mom vaccinated yesterday.

Appointment times were made available on Monday at 9am. This was public knowledge. Appointment times will be made available again next Monday. To be critical that there are no appointment times being made available on Wednesday when none were scheduled to be seems odd.

I'll keep saying this, with the weather forecast I'm guessing that there will be cancelations on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday because 80 year olds and snow and ice don't really mix. If you know someone over 80 years old who wants a vaccine I would check the appointment system that I have used for my family successfully and have posted screen shots here to help everyone here.

Is this a perfect system? No.

But it's the system we have and it is navigable.

Having been to the convention center to get a vaccine I found it to be extremely well organized and professional. There are health professionals there from Kaiser, Legacy, Providence, and OHSU, plus the Oregon national guard.

It felt both safe medically and security wise.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I'm not trying to defend Brown or the job she's done with covid, I'm just saying that following the instructions that were told to the public, I was able to get my dad an appointment for Friday and Mrs Spd was able to get her mom vaccinated yesterday.

Appointment times were made available on Monday at 9am. This was public knowledge. Appointment times will be made available again next Monday. To be critical that there are no appointment times being made available on Wednesday when none were scheduled to be seems odd.

I'll keep saying this, with the weather forecast I'm guessing that there will be cancelations on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday because 80 year olds and snow and ice don't really mix. If you know someone over 80 years old who wants a vaccine I would check the appointment system that I have used for my family successfully and have posted screen shots here to help everyone here.

Is this a perfect system? No.

But it's the system we have and it is navigable.

Having been to the convention center to get a vaccine I found it to be extremely well organized and professional. There are health professionals there from Kaiser, Legacy, Providence, and OHSU, plus the Oregon national guard.

It felt both safe medically and security wise.
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Glad to hear that the system worked well for you and that things are well-run at the convention center. I'm taking mom-in-law down there this afternoon so I hope that remains the case. Given that, like the PDX and State Fairgrounds operations, it's being run by health organizations rather than the State, I'm not too surprised that it's well organized.

That said, I think that having a system that calls for taking folks in the 80+ age group to mass vaccination sites is nuts. Fortunately, my M-I-L is amazingly healthy for her age, but she is apprehensive about having to stand in line for any length of time as that's very hard for her to do. Brown and her administration have had a year to plan this. I get that they received a lot of bad info from the Trump Administration, but the planning for handling of vaccinations has always been the clear responsibility of the individual states. Having Brown and the head of the State Health Dept. both say that it would be "chaos" trying to get an appointment is pretty disheartening. My M-I-L was lucky and it sounds like your loved ones were as well. You and I are both pretty astute and were able to provide help with the system. That's not true for an awful lot of the elderly community. I'm really hoping that a proactive program of reaching out to those who don't get appointments in the next week or two will begin to take place.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I'm not trying to defend Brown or the job she's done with covid, I'm just saying that following the instructions that were told to the public, I was able to get my dad an appointment for Friday and Mrs Spd was able to get her mom vaccinated yesterday.

Appointment times were made available on Monday at 9am. This was public knowledge. Appointment times will be made available again next Monday. To be critical that there are no appointment times being made available on Wednesday when none were scheduled to be seems odd.

I'll keep saying this, with the weather forecast I'm guessing that there will be cancelations on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday because 80 year olds and snow and ice don't really mix. If you know someone over 80 years old who wants a vaccine I would check the appointment system that I have used for my family successfully and have posted screen shots here to help everyone here.

Is this a perfect system? No.

But it's the system we have and it is navigable.

Having been to the convention center to get a vaccine I found it to be extremely well organized and professional. There are health professionals there from Kaiser, Legacy, Providence, and OHSU, plus the Oregon national guard.

It felt both safe medically and security wise.
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Appointment times availability on Monday at 9am is public knowledge now. It was not before that time. I had my doctor's office tell me to call just after midnight Sunday night. Guess what? No appointment scheduling was available. I also tried Monday morning at 6am. Guess what? No appointment scheduling was available. Since I was busy with work I didn't try again until after noon and by then all of the appointments were taken.
 
Literally he must have negative doomsday tweets and articles on notification.
 
I would love to have him show me a positive post in this thread from him in the last 6 months!
 
Oregon is looking better than it has since October!
 
tlongII said:
Appointment times availability on Monday at 9am is public knowledge now. It was not before that time. I had my doctor's office tell me to call just after midnight Sunday night. Guess what? No appointment scheduling was available. I also tried Monday morning at 6am. Guess what? No appointment scheduling was available. Since I was busy with work I didn't try again until after noon and by then all of the appointments were taken.
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In case you didn’t see, they’re opening up appointments for next week at 9:00 am today.
 
I signed my mom up and she has an appointment. However, I made the mistake of using her email to send the confirmation to. Apparently the email has a link to fill out a form and a link for scheduling the appt for dose #2. Of course she deleted the email before she clicked the links. She even deleted the email from the deleted folder. :( I'm hoping we'll get it figured out when we go to her appointment for shot #1. Having scheduling done over the internet is not a good idea for people over 80.
 
tlongII said:
I signed my mom up and she has an appointment. However, I made the mistake of using her email to send the confirmation to. Apparently the email has a link to fill out a form and a link for scheduling the appt for dose #2. Of course she deleted the email before she clicked the links. She even deleted the email from the deleted folder. :( I'm hoping we'll get it figured out when we go to her appointment for shot #1. Having scheduling done over the internet is not a good idea for people over 80.
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You should ground her for that.

No TV for a month sounds fair.
 
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