How to Improve Your Chances of Scheduling a COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment

When not one, but two safe and highly efficacious vaccines received Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration in December 2020—less than a year after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States— it almost seemed too good to be true. (Which is not to imply that corners were cut in the research or trials; everything happened with unprecedented cooperation and speed, but the process wasn’t rushed.)

After months of hearing that aspects of our pre-pandemic lives could return “once there’s an effective vaccine widely available,”...