Name: Three Tech Tips for Booking a Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment | WSJ
Uploaded: 2021-05-30T12:36:30.000Z
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That's over 200 COVID vaccine appointments

I'm an unemployed IT geek from New Jersey

doing my best to secure COVID vaccine appointments

- [Joanna] In case you haven't had the pleasure

And not only for people who aren't great at computers.

for an 80-year-old family friend on Rite Aid,

and then a couple of minutes later it was gone.

I just feel like I don't know how to work the internet.

They're hard to navigate and appointments are very limited.

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71 for his father who passed away at the age of 71,

But after Kris had a booking system in place,

So I decided to go study under the master

and get his best tips on booking appointments.

- How intense is it in this world of vaccine booking?

- Right now we're at a point where milliseconds matter.

using a desktop or laptop over a mobile phone.

I was able to use his tips to book appointments

Step one, bookmark the websites and learn the patterns.

Gather and bookmark the links to the websites

that allow you to make appointments in your area.

or if there are Facebook groups such as ours in New Jersey,

we post every single availability in real time.

- [Joanna] In some states there have been

aggregation sites built that list all the vaccine locations.

for knowing the patterns when new appointments are added.

- [Kris] CVS I would always suggest checking

For Rite Aid, I would suggest always checking

- [Joanna] Rite Aid and CVS would not confirm

but I had similar luck at booking around then.

Step two: set up autofill in your web browser.

name, phone number and email address ahead of time,

be it in Chrome or any other web browser you have

so when it comes time to click that booking

you can automatically filly that information

In Chrome, go to preferences, autofill, addresses and more.

And Microsoft Edge, go to preferences, personal info.

One thing you cannot autofill, your insurance information.

But you can skip putting that info in altogether

The first: a browser refresh extension called Page Refresh.

every few seconds or minutes without any clicking

Kris keeps these windows open on his second monitor

This extension is available for Chrome and Microsoft Edge,

the extension doesn't collect any user data.

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