Al Roker is protecting himself against COVID-19. During Tuesday's episode of the show, the 66-year-old co-host received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine live on-air.Roker qualifies for the vaccine due to his age, but it still wasn't easy for him to get an appointment.«All weekend long, I went on the New York state health.gov website and kept logging in and adding my information.
Kept logging in, logging in, I finally hit pay dirt Sunday morning and I got assigned here to Lenox Hill Hospital,» he said. «That's how I made it.
But it was a constant [process]. I kept hitting refresh, refresh, refresh on the browser and finally got in.»Roker described the appointment process as «luck of the draw,» noting that each facility distributing the.