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Rural communities are pushing back against vaccine-scheduling bots they say are giving out-of-towners an upper hand – Business Insider Australia
One Massachusetts county canceled 350 vaccine appointments after residents of outside towns and cities used bots to scoop up almost every slot.

- 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…
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