Places like Seattle will probably be the last to reach easy vaccine availability, due to demographics associated with high vaccine enthusiasm and low vaccine refusal. Places with high vaccine refusal generally reached easy vaccine availability earliest.
I do not think you got my point. Plenty of appointments available even in Seattle, but the system still has not been updated to make them easily available.
youâve mentioned this numerous times, but do you have a source to support your speculation?
Note, Washington state is only ~20th in the % fully vaccinated. Shouldnât it be higher if the state had a higher interest in vaccines?
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=covid+vaccine+by+state&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
It is not on a statewide basis, since regions within a state vary in vaccine enthusiasm. That is why Seattle residents were doing âvaccine tourismâ to areas of the state where there is high vaccine refusal. Same with Los Angeles metro residents doing âvaccine tourismâ to Central Valley areas in California.
Nope. Itâs true, they were vaccinated very easily here are still are. Florida state residency is neither required nor even checked at many sites. I personally did not even have to show ID. We not only had visitors fly in and get vaccinated while on vacation but during the early stages had many from neighboring states come in to take advantage of the federal sites in particular that had abundant supply. Not sure where your Mom lives but we are/have been good here in Florida and our elderly population was given priority as was the intention of the rollout âŠ
Just went onto Seattle Childrenâs Hospital and they have a number of slots open. No preregistration needed to grab one, then fill out the info.
True, some sites do make it easy, but one needs to know where to look! If one is using the official vaccine finder site, Childrenâs is buried in the middle of a long list of options most of which are not that easily accessible. Frustrating because there is availability, and my guess is that many more would be glad to get a shot if finding them were easy. Meanwhile, cases are on the rise, so vaccinating as fast as we can is extremely important.
Maybe in a month or so pharmacies will have signs âCovid vaccine available,â like flu shots, so walk ins could get theirs while shopping for groceries. 
Except that WA is only 21st in vaccine utilization, i.e., a lot of vax remaining in freezers and not in arms. CA is 28th. Perhaps its more of states mis-allocation/planning issues?
I do get BBâs point however. NorCal had similar issues with the different sites having their own registration issues. Kaiser NorCal was taking all comers, however, as one did not need to be a Kaiser member to register for a jab. (Registration was a nightmare for non-members.) In contract, mass vax sites went up in SoCal faster, and the registration requirements were minimal once they got the servers up and running. (just skip thru the pages by marking âNo, Donât Knowâ) Again, thatâs an allocation/planning issue.
From my obsessive observationâŠ
You really need to look at the âat least first doseâ numbers to get a feel of how many people are demanding it now. If you look at the âat least first does numbersâ compared to fully vaccinated, you can get a sense of what states jumped out ahead early but now are stalling. I love the NPR site with the circles graph. If you toggle between the two metrics, itâs fun to see how the statesâ ranks change.
In the beginning, states were allocated vaccines generally based on population. I would say almost every state has some number of people who really want(ed) the vaccine. States that had good initial rollouts jumped ahead early (WV, ND). However, all states eventually got most of the kinks worked out and it started to level out. Once you got through those in the early phased groups who wanted the vaccine, the demand dropped. States that had the demand drop first then opened them up to additional phases more quickly than others. This kept them ahead, but soon that dried up. Eventually, the states with more demand overall continued to surge and overtake the others.
Certainly states probably have areas with high demand and low demand. My state (VA) is very much this way. In the beginning VA worked very hard to get it to the rural underserved areas. We jumped ahead of the rest of the state quickly, but demand fell off quickly. Then, they opened it up to everyone and are sending more of the rural supply to NOVA. Now, they have surged passed the rural areas. At first, it was just the initial dose that passed us. However, now the fully vaccinated number has passed us as well.
I suspect Washington is similar to VA. The Seattle area probably has a huge demand. The rural east, notsomuch. From what it sounds like though, WA didnât redistribute their supply as quickly as VA did once demand dropped elsewhere. But also, states with a mix of demand areas are going to be behind those states where demand is high everywhere.
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They must really have some great 21 day vacations! 
Perhaps they were the reason my mom had so much trouble getting her vaccination. It took her department of health weeks to get to her number.
Many of my neighbors go to Florida for the winter and received their vaccination there. I talked to someone yesterday and they got the first here in Michigan and the second in Florida.
Florida was vaccinating seasonal residents. You needed to get documentation from your landlord that you were going to be there for an extended period of time. It took a little more effort was was doable. According to one of my friends.
@MissingThe90s interesting! My neighbors talked that they needed some kind of proof that they werenât just flying in for the vaccine. But as with many reports I have heard, the key was getting the appointment. Once you got that appointment, no documents needed at the site.
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Remember the one dose vaccine J&J ?
The The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego is offering vaccines at three nearby churches, including one two blocks away. All that scrambling we did! It really was just a matter of time, but Iâm glad we didnât wait.
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It seems like Washington is a week or two behind Colorado. Here everyone was pushing and shoving to get the vaccine, even as recently as Easter (opened to everyone that weekend). In the last 3 weeks weâve gone from long line to âno appointment necessaryâ. Today they announce all the drive up clinics are no appointment necessary. They are going to use the J&J for the mobile vans in more rural areas.
I bet Washington moves quickly and that the appointment system isnât needed in 2 weeks.
In Arizona the state PODS are taking walk ins now and DHâs pharmacy ( grocery store) is also taking walk ins as of today.
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Northern Virginia opened a walk in clinic in a vacant Lord and Taylorâs at Tysons Corner. Appointments can also be made easily now.
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So it looks like the mass vaccination sites and other vaccine providers in this area (where the demographics suggest high vaccine enthusiasm and low vaccine refusal) now have readily available appointment slots for next day, or are allowing walk ins, for COVID-19 vaccines. This suggests that everyone who wants a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to fully vaccinated by mid-June or earlier (depending on the dose timing of the specific vaccine).
Are there any areas where this point of ready availability has not been reached?
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ucbalumnus - it might have been you, or someone else who has a CA reference in their name, who mentioned a few months back how Marin County was a big anti-vax area for childrenâs vaccines. Any idea how Marin County and other west coast children anti-vax areas are thinking about the CV vaccine? Is this seen differently? ~~ flyover midwest here; no idea on this.
Marin County is a notable hotbed of anti-vaccine activism generally. But, interestingly, it seems to have a relatively high uptake of COVID-19 vaccine.
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Our state is having nice clinics to vaccinate at multiple public housing venuesâno appt needed with music and multiple translators for the varying languages of the residents.
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