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Do you use a smartphone or a computer? Do you have patience and endurance? Can you carve out some time to keep checking websites throughout the day?
Then you have what it takes to help edge us toward the finish line of the pandemic by hunting down appointments for COVID-19 vaccines.
People all over Southern California are volunteering to find appointments for others reaching out to older or unwell or technologically challenged neighbors, putting up fliers offering their aid, posting their willingness to help strangers on Facebook and Nextdoor.
Gabe Silk, 18, of Palos Verdes Estates is closing out his senior year at Palos Verdes High School. But in between classes and after school each day and into the night and on weekends, he surfs the web looking for available appointments a service he first performed for grandparents in Florida he hasn’t been able to see for more than a year.