San Luis Obispo County Public Health is moving away from a first-come, first-serve COVID-19 vaccination appointment system to a new lottery-based system—a change that officials say will "ease stress and ensure more equity" in the vaccination process.
Instead of announcing the availability of new appointment slots each Thursday, which are getting gobbled up within a few hours, SLO County is instead asking all vaccine-eligible residents to register once on its website at recoverslo.org/vaccines.
Then each Thursday, starting March 4, officials will randomly select which people in the larger pool will get scheduled for their first vaccine shot.
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