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- Vaccine-scheduling bots intended to make registration easier on seniors are facing backlash.
- A clinic in rural Massachusetts was canceled after 350 shots were reserved by out-of-towners.
- As of Feb. 26, more than 70 million people received COVID-19 vaccine shots in the US, the CDC said.
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On February 19, health officials in Franklin County, Massachusetts, learned they'd be receiving 350 new doses of COVID-19 vaccine to make available to their residents at a local clinic.
But less than 10 minutes after the scheduling link was posted to the state website, all of the appointments were scooped up - 95 percent of them by out-of towners, Emergency Preparedness Program Manager Tracy Rogers told Insider.
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