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ST. GEORGE, Utah High demand for the COVID-19 vaccine from southwest Utah residents aged 70 and older caused the local health department s website to crash on Monday morning. We understand how frustrating this is for many of our seniors, read a statement from David Heaton, spokesperson for the Southwest Utah Public Health Department.
Once the website became overwhelmed, the local health department sought the help from the state to set up a temporary sign-up page. It s very frustrating, said Washington County resident Marsha Rogers. This is just so unfair to those other people who are not technology savvy.
Once the temporary page got up and running, all remaining vaccine appointments through the end of January were quickly reserved.
Demand for COVID-19 vaccines is outpacing supply across the state.
(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Shelly Begay, a Diné medical assistant at Utah Navajo Health System’s Monument Valley Clinic, carries a patient’s coronavirus test kit out of the mobile triage unit for transport and testing on Aug., 24, 2020.
| Jan. 15, 2021, 10:48 p.m.
Bluff • Southern Utah health departments are having no problem finding eligible residents who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but the limited supply of doses is slowing their rollout.
The Utah Department of Health, which began allocating vials of vaccine to hospitals in late December and now is prioritizing local health departments, does not yet have geographic data for the more than 142,751 doses that had been administered in Utah as of Friday.
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