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Seniors face serious hurdles in getting COVID vaccine appointments © Octavio Jones/Reuters Younger Americans have been scrambling to secure vaccine appointments online for their grandparents and elderly parents combing the internet, navigating dozens of tabs at once, refreshing websites for hours often without any luck. It s an experience that hardly anyone who s done it would wish on any octogenarian, and yet it s the system the nation s oldest, most at-risk residents and their families are required to navigate in order to get a vaccine. These tech hurdles are exacerbated in the neighborhoods that need the vaccines the most, often low-income communities of color where computer and internet access aren t easily accessible, community organizers on the ground say. They worry the vaccine inequity gap will only widen as the vaccine rolls out to broader swaths of the public.MORE: Racial disparities trouble COVID-19 vaccine rollout

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