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Scientific American Teens and Other Volunteers Help Seniors Find Scarce COVID Shots Sign-up systems for vaccines are horribly confusing, so people across the U.S. set up Facebook pages and phone lines with hands-on help Advertisement Waking up at the crack of dawn. Dialing the same busy phone line for hours on end. Clicking through confusing prompts on website after website. With demand far outstripping supply, the frenzied search for a COVID vaccine appointment can be overwhelming, even for eligible people in high-priority, high-risk groups, such as older adults. “It’s been a nightmare,” says Caroline Cooper, a 78-year-old attorney in Chevy Chase, Md., who is familiar with computers and bureaucracies and still could not find herself a shot. “It’s very stressful, because you don’t know if you’ll ever get the vaccine.” Appointment systems are incredibly convoluted, and vaccine seekers can’t easily tell whether they should contact a state, a city, a county, a loc

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