Here are the Best Sites to Schedule a COVID Vaccination Appointment

Finding that unicorn appointment

Heather Jauquet
4 min readApr 16, 2021
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Author’s Note: This article has information specifically about finding vaccination schedules in Maryland and Washington, DC. However, towards the bottom, I list universal sites, tips, and tricks that can help you find a vaccination appointment no matter where you live. Happy hunting!

Did you know that Maryland and Virginia do not have residency requirements to book a COVID vaccine appointment? I didn’t know that until I helped a friend from Washington, DC schedule an appointment. She had specific requirements: it needed to be Pfizer and it had to be somewhere close enough to take Metro and/or Uber. So what’s a person to do to find this unicorn appointment?

You can check here to see if your state has residency requirements.

In the last 24 hours, I learned a lot about trying to grab appointments for anyone, but especially the elusive unicorn of something local and giving out the vaccine she needed.

I learned that there are plenty of appointments if I wanted to make the trek to the Mass Vaccination Site in Wicomico County and that wouldn’t work. I also learned that DC residents were driving as far as North Carolina to get an appointment, which wouldn’t work for her since she…

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Heather Jauquet

Writer. Wife. Mom. Runner. Crocheter. Cancer patient in a pandemic.