This what happens when government is in charge:
Scott M. Stringer
@NYCComptroller
The @nycHealthy site has a multi-step verification process just to set up an account, and then a six-step process to set up an appointment.
Along the way, there are as many as 51 questions or fields, in addition to uploading images of your insurance card.
Scott M. Stringer
@NYCComptroller
All of this will be particularly challenging for populations that struggle with digital literacy and digital access—who have been hit hardest by this pandemic and who need the vaccine most.
We should be #1 in vaccinations in the nation from day one—and we should be using every tool at our disposal to vaccinate as many New Yorkers as possible as quickly as possible.
Instead we’ve set up a gauntlet that requires tech support.
We can’t force frontline workers and those over 75 to confront a bewildering signup process.
Any barrier to getting shots in arms is only going to prolong the agony of this crisis.
The City must fix this now. There is nothing more important. Lives are on the line.
Stringer’s complaints follow reports of hospitals in the city being forced to throw away doses of the vaccine.
Dr. Neil Calman, president of the Institute for Family Health, complained to the NYT that the Family Health Center of Harlem had to throw away doses when patients didn’t show up to their appointments, since they couldn’t turn around and instead administer the doses to others.
Those are design features inserted for a purpose.
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Along the way, there are as many as 51 questions or fields, in addition to uploading images of your insurance card.
But it is racist to require an ID to vote?!?!?!?