At #3, it's time to register for the shot (now you know what the pencil was for). This takes you to #2 - a long straightaway (behind the curtains) where your job is to pick up a pencil while running as if being chased by the Army of the Dead. The red sign people, seemingly hundreds of them, (cropped out of the photo, to the left) are waving away like mad while performing a snappy medley of 'hi' and 'how are you?' They steer you to the left where you must dodge another mass of eager greeters, not unlike a running back avoiding tacklers. From the location at #1 you are herded into the main arena. Once in the building, much of your activity consists of sprinting around a running track (it really is) and stopping at various stations, where necessary functions are carried out. Envision an armory filled with sign-holding unemployed Rockettes. The ~75% of them, who didn't really seem to be necessary, demonstrated their ability to multitask by also saying 'hi' to everyone. There were so many of them that they were about 10 feet apart during some stretches. There were people with red signs to keep you moving in the right direction. The following photos will give you some idea of how (and how well) it worked. Indeed, things went spectacularly well, thanks to the extraordinary effort and superb organization by Cornell Weill Medical Center staff. It could have hardly gone better, something I should have figured out at the beginning when an extraordinary event occurred.Ī miracle: A parking space in Manhattan? When is the last time that happened?

I grabbed.īut could this really work out? After all, the rollout of the two approved vaccines, which ACSH advisor Dr. Jeffrey Singer and I recently likened to a Keystone Kops movie in our r ecent op-ed in the New York Daily News, has hardly been exemplary.ĭamn, was I wrong.

Much to my surprise, the website worked perfectly, and there were about 20 appointments up for grabs. Chuck Dinerstein (apparently), hasn't yet grown weary of the countless Zoom conferences where I inform him, 'you look like a bomb blew up in your hair.' Because the good doctor gave me a big heads up a couple of days ago that Weill Cornell Medical Center (1) had COVID vaccines on hand at the newly opened vaccination center in the Fort Hamilton Armory. It's a good thing that our beloved director of medicine, Dr.

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