Wow thats lucky, are you priority groups or able to go private in Israel?
Israel is vaccinating everyone who is 60 years old and up in the first round.
Healthcare workers are all being vaccinated through work.
The public (60 years old an up) are being vaccinated through their healthcare organizations.
We have socialized medicine similar to the UK, except that we have 4 healthcare organizations (not one).
But it operates like socialized medicine and everyone is covered.
And the government instructs the 4 organizations what they have to cover, what they can charge. Things like that.
Anyway, the government has instructed that everyone 60 and over is to be vaccinated in the first round, which is apparently beginning on Sunday.
There's enough vaccine already in the country to cover 1.9 million people (3.8 million doses), which is a lot.
There are about 9 million people living here, so 1.9 million people is a large chunk of the population.
Yesterday at 6 PM, my husband and i got emails to call the central number to make our appointments.
We tried calling right away, but the phone system crashed because so many people were calling.
So we tried again at opening this morning (8 am) and got through.
Wednesday morning (at 10:24 and 10:32) was available at the vaccine center near us, so we were very happy to reserve that.
they also gave us appointments for the 2nd dose in january.
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