@Jeruba I found this article that seemed like it should have answered your question, but it lacks the type of specifics I think you want to hear. I, like you, also would love to know specifics. I still linked the article, because it does talk about how vaccine providers will need to sign a document agreeing to follow the guidelines, and that poses the question how will pharmacies necessarily know if you have preexisting conditions? How will people prove it? Based on their meds? I don’t take meds for my heterozygous blood clotting gene or my intermittent high BP or my leaky heart valves.
It also talked about an effort to get to minority groups that are higher risk. How do people prove that? Will my husband get priority for being Hispanic? Seems to me what puts minorities in a higher risk group is their jobs, health status, and living conditions, not their actual race or ethnicity. This is one of the pitfalls of grouping people by minority group rather than circumstance.
From what I gather from the articles is health systems, our doctors, and the media will be letting us know who’s turn it is. People said the same above. I wouldn’t be surprised if my congressman’s office emails me as well, which they have done for covid information before. I don’t remember if I signed up, or if they pull my email from the state information.
I also heard in an interview on TV that people will have to make an appointment for a shot since there are all of these cold storage processes. I assume whatever facilities have the vaccine, a doctor, a pharmacy, a lab, a local clinic, they will likely screen us to determine if we are eligible at that time. The screening might be online or with an appointments person.
That’s what I could gather after googling a bit and hearing more about it on TV.