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by Rebelgecko 1963 days ago
For the county I've gone through the process with, the county periodically adds new links to the calvax website on their home page. Each link is a different day/location.

When you follow the link, you have to fill out your name, address, insurance, employment status, email, phone #, etc. Then you have to answer around 20 medical questions (some of the ones I remember: pregnant? Breastfeeding? Cancer? Had covid before? Allergies? Is this your 1st or 2nd dose? If 2nd, which vaccine did you have before?)

Then there's a confirmation page where you're supposed to verify the info you typed in (but if you take the time to actually verify you reduce the odds of getting an appointment)

Then there's a page where you scribble your signature with a mouse

If you gotten that far without getting booted out by the Cloud flare rate limiting or getting a Heroku error, you're finally allowed to see if the location has available appointments, and see if they are using the flavor of vaccine that you need.

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And at the final step it shows no appointments available even though the LA County link that takes you to the calvax link says there are appointments available.

Calvax doesn’t remember your info either. I have now answered the same questions about 10 times.

Calvax has no contact information to report the issue.

I tried to fill it out for both of my parents in different browser tabs and sometimes their info would get mixed up (janky session management?). Fun stuff, I hope you have more luck in the future with appointments
Ouch, that sounds terrible. I took a look at the calvax page and didn't see any clinic links. Sorry you have to go through that nonsense