More states are adopting digital IDs, but some critics worry it s too risky Share Updated: 8:18 PM CDT May 9, 2021 SOPHIA EPPOLITO Share Updated: 8:18 PM CDT May 9, 2021
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Show Transcript FROM A FEW PEOPLE WHO’VE TRIED TO BOOK APPOINTMENTS SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS SITE IN DANVERS. 70-YEAR-OLD JAN SMITH FROM MARBLEHEAD DIDN’T HAVE MUCH HOPE WHEN HE TRIED TODAY TO BOOK A VACCINATION APPOINTMENT. AND FOR EVERY TOWN, IT’S TELLING ME THEY’RE ALL FULLY BOOKED. BUT YESTERDAY, WHEN THEY STATE RELEASED 50,000 NEW APPOINTMENTS AT ITS MASS VACCINATION SITES, SMITH LOGGED ON RIGHT AWAY AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE HE WAS NEAR THE FRONT OF THE LINE, RELATIVELY SPEAKING. I FLIPPED IT ON. I WAS RIGHT AND AS SOON AS IT KICKED ON, I DISCOVERED I WAS NUMBER 15,000. SMITH SAT ONLINE FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR AND THEN CHOSE AN APPOINTMENT AT THE VACCINE SITE IN DANVERS HE FILLED IN HIS INFORMATION, THOUGHT HE WAS HOME FREE, AND THEN GOT AN UNP