CDC’s VaccineFinder aims to help you find COVID shots—but needs a lot of work

Enlarge / A registered nurse practitioner holds up a sign and a flag asking for another patient to dose with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as well as a more vaccine doses at a vaccination site in Seattle, Washington on January 24, 2021. (credit: Getty | Grant Hendsley)

In its efforts to help Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is quietly working on a new website that will let people see every location in their community offering COVID-19 vaccinations, how many shots each of those locations has for the current day, and provide links to set up vaccination appointments.

That's the ideal, at least; there's a lot of work to do to get there.

Right now, the site-vaccinefinder.org-only has the full lists of vaccine providers for four states-Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee. Those lists include providers at hospitals, clinics, public health centers, doctor's offices, drug stores, and grocery store pharmacies.

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