Leighann Bacher has seen that Vaccinate Pittsburgh, a Facebook page she co-founded, has primarily drawn people over the age of 65.
A mother of two children, Bacher connected with another mom, Heather Lucci, in southwest Pennsylvania to create their group, after they had both found challenges getting vaccinations for themselves and family members. We started Jan. 31, and it just kind of exploded from there, Bacher said. They have a little more than 30,000 members now.
How does this work?
About 100 volunteers make the machines run at VaccinatePA.
They connect with the 1,100 or so pharmacies in the state offering the vaccinations, cycling through those sites every few days, constantly updating the website with the latest appointment availability.
How PA volunteers are helping people find coronavirus vaccinations
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Pittsburghers helping Pittsburghers secure COVID-19 vaccination appointments: Three Hampton-area women started a Facebook group to do just that.Watch the report in the video player above. I just wish I had a magic button to help every single person that asks for help on our page, Leighann Bacher said.Bacher, along with friends Heather Lucci and Liz Huber, created the group, which is called Getting Pittsburgh Vaccinated - COVID-19 Appointment Tip Page.After Bacher secured appointments for family members, she felt she could help others who were struggling. It s really frustrating, she said. It breaks my heart every time someone comments and they re like, I ve been trying for weeks, I have this many risk factors, I m so worried, or they re worried for their mom, their dad, their grandparents. Desperate to get vaccine appointments for her father and high-risk mother-in-law, Donna Azar said she spent hours calling their primary care physicians, local hospitals and Veterans Affai