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• Updated: Feb. 16, 2021 2:00 p.m.
arrow Laptop sits inside the COVID-19 vaccination center at The Armory, an indoor track and field complex in Washington Heights.. Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock
When 73-year-old Maria Parilla decided to get a COVID-19 vaccine, she called her doctor’s office, only to learn she couldn t get it there. Now, she s waiting for her daughter to find her an appointment.
Parilla, who lives alone on the Lower East Side, considers herself more tech-savvy than most of her peers: she has a smartphone and uses it to message her daughter. But she said trying to book a vaccination online is beyond her skillset.