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Currently there's an input limit because of this "buffer" (how full the waiting room is allowed to be), when I got my first dose 6 months ago there was a long l

Currently there's an input limit because of this "buffer" (how full the waiting room is allowed to be), when I got my first dose 6 months ago there was a long line outside of the vaccination center (not in the UK), and people showing up at 5:20 for a 5:30 appointment was told to wait (the first limitation was probably only having x bookable appointments per time slot). The healthcare workers were going as fast as they can though, so I guess that's the real bottleneck. I guess without the waiting area they can add more vaccination booths, but geez, that sounds stressful for the workers, imagine having a person every ~2 minutes for extended periods of time. Which makes me think I should move my booster appointment to the morning...

Havoc 5y ago
>imagine having a person every ~2 minutes for extended periods of time. For my 1s dose I was at a walk in that had announced a lower age range than rest of London and the entire twittersphere showed up as a result. The docs must have been at <15 seconds each. Basically conveyor belt of people barely breaking their stride while walking past. They were still going at 19h00. Wild. Though to be fair lots of volunteers on both before & after dealing with the logistics so that docs just did the needle part. Definitely not sustainable pace especially if you expecting to do the same next day, but was impressive display of possible throughput