The Vaccine Hustle

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Older adults around the country are struggling to get a vaccine appointment thanks to limited supply, overwhelmed phone lines, dysfunctional websites. Today, CNN checks in with seniors on the search and tries to figure out why this is happening. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How did you find out that you could get this document?
0:04.9	I googled it and it told you this location was...
0:08.0	Yeah, this showed us all the locations and the timings and everything and this is the
0:13.5	closest where we live.
0:16.1	That's my mother, Dementi Gupta.
0:18.7	Her nickname is Rani which means Queen in Hindi and as you're about to find out, that's
0:24.5	a really good nickname for her.
0:27.0	Now as you've no doubt heard, the vaccine rollout has gotten off to a rocky start.
0:32.2	In Florida, the state made the vaccine available to everyone over the age of 65 on a first
0:38.3	come first serve basis.
0:40.6	As a result, seniors across the state began flocking to vaccination sites and waiting in
0:45.8	long lines sometimes even camping overnight.
0:50.0	My parents, both in their late 70s, were two of them.
0:54.1	At that time I knew there were only 300 doses available.
0:59.7	So I woke him up right away and said, let's get...
1:03.3	I had everything lined up to just get ready in five minutes.
1:08.0	So that's what we did.
1:09.2	We left about 115, we left and we were here at 130.
1:13.5	That's 130 in the middle of the night.
1:16.0	Which if you want to get up there?
1:18.5	No.
1:19.5	But you got up anyway.
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