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With doses in short supply, thousands of frustrated COVID-19 vaccine seekers are turning to social media for help and getting it

In search of a COVID-19 vaccine for her dad, Amber Dow was hitting one dead end after another. Retail pharmacy websites declared “appointments unavailable.” Slots at local medical centers kept disappearing before she could type in any information. Then she received a private Facebook message from a stranger: Go to the Jewel-Osco website right now. Enter your ZIP code. It’s in Palatine. She .

Thousands of frustrated COVID-19 vaccine seekers are turning to social media for help and getting it

Chicago 14-year-old gets COVID-19 vaccines to seniors

Chicago 14-year-old gets COVID-19 vaccines to seniors
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Balancing Act: A 14-year-old Chicago kid has connected more than 100 seniors to COVID-19 vaccines It s completely beautiful

Balancing Act: A 14-year-old Chicago kid has connected more than 100 seniors to COVID-19 vaccines. ‘It’s completely beautiful’ Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune © Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS His school, Francis W. Parker School, was on break Feb. 15-19 and he estimates he connected more than 100 people to vaccines in that time. Benjamin Kagan, 14, spent winter break remotely navigating the COVID-19 vaccine system in Florida, where his grandparents became eligible for their shots in early January. When his grandparents in Arizona became eligible for vaccines, he spent hours scouring that state’s various sites and systems for availability. He secured shots for those grandparents and his grandparents in Indiana. A few weeks later, when the employees at his parents’ wholesale food company, Good to Go Food, became eligible under Illinois’ group 1b, Kagan started tracking down vaccine appointments for them.

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