Faithful blog readers will have followed yours truly's adventures with the process whereby eligible employees (those of a certain age) are to be vaccinated by UCLA.* Actually, he gave up a long time ago after jumping through various online hoops and then not being given the final (??) hoop, a survey (about health or maybe something else). Yesterday, he finally got a response to an email he sent about the unavailable, but required, survey saying someone had been notified about the survey problem and that he would get another email about it, presumably with the survey. He was also informed that the bug in the system that prevented him from inserting the correct email for his dean had been fixed. Meanwhile, another UCLA system - for folks who are patients but not eligible employees - seems to be randomly sending out appointments. Yours truly's wife got one. It may be - who knows? - that being an eligible employee precludes one from getting a regular eligible patient appointment.
Yours truly suggested in one of his earlier posts that patients and eligible employees be given numbers - just as is done in some retail stores and for services such as blood draws within UCLA Health - so they would know where they stand in the priority list. Nothing like that has happened. There was an email that went out to patients saying that if they wanted to be sure they were on the list, they could make an appointment with a UCLA doctor (even if they had no health issues?).
My advice to both patients and UCLA eligible employees is to pursue appointments through other sources such as LA County. Yours truly got his first shot at the Forum in Inglewood through the County (and was given a card with a date for a second shot at the time). Then, if UCLA comes through before your outside appointment, you can cancel one or the other. Good luck!
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/01/ucla-needs-new-vaccine-rollout-for_26.html; http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/01/ucla-needs-new-vaccine-rollout-for_25.html; http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/01/ucla-needs-new-vaccine-rollout-for.html.
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UPDATE: Shortly after this posting appeared, yours truly got a notice from UCLA about a "scheduling ticket" that was supposed to be in his MyChart account. It wasn't there, so he emailed a message saying so to a "feedback" address provided. About 10 hours later, he received a second message from UCLA saying a vaccine appointment could be scheduled. It wasn't clear whether all of this occurred due to his patient status or to his eligible employee status, or maybe to both. In any case, since he has already received his first shot from LA County, he won't book a UCLA appointment.
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