How do you remove your name from COVID-19 vaccine waiting lists in North Texas? Most places have hotlines that can take requests for canceling appointments or dropping out. COVID vaccine stickers where the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administed at Ellis Davis Fieldhouse, a Parkland Hospital testing and vaccine location, in Dallas on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) To get potentially lifesaving vaccinations, many North Texans have adopted the same strategy: Sign up on as many waiting lists for COVD-19 shots as possible, and then take the first appointment that’s offered. But as access to the vaccine expands, some people have found more luck getting appointments at local pharmacies and other clinics rather than waiting for their names to come up on county-operated waiting lists, which can span hundreds of thousands of names.