Ulyee Choe's Online Review Report Card

As Director of Public Health for Pinellas he implemented nothing to prepare our County for the successful and orderly registration and vaccination of seniors. In fact, the online system crashed immediately, the allotted phone lines were insufficient to allow seniors to reach the Health Department and no communication took place with the media until the media sought answers to the unprecedented level of complaints from seniors. Did he do nothing? Or did he do everything, wrong? Regardless, the results were the same. Seniors like me began at Noon to register. We continued into the late afternoon. I finally reached the office and was told the system was down and she could do nothing. I asked her to take my information. She said she couldn’t do that. Why? Was she not trained to help residents? Was she not trained to register people by phone? She was supposed to be. I was forced to hang up after spending 4 hours to reach an employee. Then Spectrum reported a fix had been applied. Now they were registering again. My place in line had been ignored and discarded. I tried into the next day to reach someone. Finally, in late morning, the phone line was no longer busy and the recording told me to wait online and I would be taken in the order I was received. I waited online, listening to that message for over 2 hours when Spectrum reported the allocation of vaccines had been completed. No more registrations were to be allowed at this time. Again, my acknowledged place in line was discarded. My 2 days of trying to register were unsuccessful. Why did I try so hard and long to get registered for a vaccine? I’m 69, I have asthma, diabetes, am immunocompromised and stand very little chance of survival should I contract Covid. I feel strongly that Dr Choe failed to perform his duty and satisfy the oath he took as a Doctor.

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