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ICYMI - InDepthNH: More North Country People Told Their Vaccination Appointments Cancelled

In Case You Missed It, InDepthNH reported that the issues with Governor Sununu’s vaccine rollout in the North Country continue as more Granite Staters have had their COVID vaccine appointments cancelled abruptly.

Key points:

  • “Dr. Pancras Van der Laan of Lancaster thought he and his wife were all set to get the COVID-19 vaccination at Littleton Hospital after registering early in the rollout for people 65 and older only to have their appointments abruptly cancelled by email Thursday at 1:23 p.m.”

  • “What’s worse is he immediately tried to reschedule using the link provided in the VAMS email and found no available appointments at any of the other sites within 100 miles.”

  • “He checked around and quickly found 10 friends who had also been scheduled to receive their first dose at Littleton Hospital were also cancelled.”

  • “‘I don’t know what’s going on,’ Van der Laan said. ‘Just cancelling us like this, this is outrageous.’”

InDepthNH: More North Country People Told Their Vaccination Appointments Cancelled By NANCY WEST, InDepthNH.org Dr. Pancras Van der Laan of Lancaster thought he and his wife were all set to get the COVID-19 vaccination at Littleton Hospital after registering early in the rollout for people 65 and older only to have their appointments abruptly cancelled by email Thursday at 1:23 p.m.

What’s worse is he immediately tried to reschedule using the link provided in the VAMS email and found no available appointments at any of the other sites within 100 miles, the farthest allowable to search, said Van der Laan, a retired internist who worked at Weeks Memorial Hospital.

He checked around and quickly found 10 friends who had also been scheduled to receive their first dose at Littleton Hospital were also cancelled.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” Van der Laan said. “Just cancelling us like this, this is outrageous.”

A few hours after Van der Laan received the cancellation email, he received a message from the state saying it was reaching out to see if he was able to successfully schedule an appointment with a confirmed time, date and location. Then it said do not reply to the text, that a second text with a link to another website OnSolve would be sent to submit his response.

At Gov. Chris Sununu’s press conference Tuesday, the state addressed a problem in which people had their appointments cancelled at Littleton Hospital because their vaccinations were only for employees, but Perry Plummer, who is in charge of the distribution, said everyone affected had been contacted. The state was unaware then that more people would be cancelled as they were Thursday, according to a spokesman for the Joint Information Center who sent a statement about the new cancellations to InDepthNH.org.

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