Senior citizens in Montgomery County are contacting FOX 5 after being turned away from getting the vaccine, which is leaving some of the most vulnerable in the community disappointed and upset.
For example: 70-year-old Jane Dobridge said she got an e-mail stating she was eligible to get vaccinated.
She signed up for an appointment through the state’s website, but when she showed up for the shot at Richard Montgomery High School, Dobridge was told to leave.
“A police escorted me out because they said I did not qualify for the vaccination and I was not entitled to be in the building,” said Dobridge.
Maryland has authorized people in Phase 1C – those who are 65 and older – to get the vaccine.
However, Montgomery County said due to limited supply of the vaccine, the county is still in Phase 1B where only people who are 75 and older can get the shot.
Due to that gray area, senior citizens like Bethesda resident 78-year-old Gary Marint said the registration process is misleading and a headache.
“We have been trying online for more than two weeks, the state site, the Montgomery county site, we fill out the forms multiple times then we find out at the end all that there’s no vaccine available. So we filled out forms, we fill out more forms,” said Marint.
They are the wrong color…
And their to old too
She can have mine, I don’t trust it. Ask Hank Aaron…