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The vaccination process here in Florida is cumbersome. Counties are getting supplies of vaccine as well as Publix pharmacies. Publix, for the uninitiated is a large, chain food store operation with pharmacies that operates in several states in the deep south.

Our county broadcasts via it's website when vaccine is available and gives a phone number to call to make an appointment. Tried it, the phone system literally crashed in the first 5 minutes and it took a couple of days to fix it.

Publix website lets you know when they have vaccine available. You have to get up to get online starting at 6:00am EST and get in the cue. We are on Central time so do the math on what time I got up to get in the cue. It is a statewide system. It crashed at 6:07 EST, servers couldn't handle it.

I visited a Publix pharmacy and asked if anybody ever fails to show up for their appointment  to get vaccinated. Yup! Several people a day aren't showing up.

I asked if they could call me if, at the end of the day, they had unclaimed vaccine. That evening I got a call and got the shot.

They preferred to give it in the left arm. Didn't even feel it but there was some stiffness and discomfort in my upper arm the following day as they predicted.

28 days until the second dose.

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