Dr. Anthony Fauci has indicated that my 89 years place me in a class especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and that I should obtain a vaccine inoculation as soon as possible. Unfortunately, he did not say how to get it.

Directed to the York Hospital vaccine site, I tried for two weeks to schedule an appointment, but no vaccine was available. In the third week, the site indicated an availability, and I dutifully supplied the personal information required and clicked the booking button. This directed me to a Solv Health site in San Francisco, which told me all the wonderful things they would do for me in booking medical appointments and requested that the personal information I had already provided be re-entered. After I did so, they sent a verification code to my phone.

When I reported to the Kittery site at the scheduled time, I was told that my name was not on their list because the third-party booker had a computer glitch and I would have to start all over again when more vaccine would become available.

One wonders why the politicians who seem to have had no problems getting their own vaccine shots are incapable of developing a workable process for the rest of us. And we cannot understand why Maine hires a California company to book appointments for Maine residents.

Frank Totman
Kittery Point