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01/21/2021 08:00 AM EST
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January 6, 2021 6:06 AM By Brandon Lee
Itâs the most massive vaccine rollout in the nationâs history, but many local governments are consigning patient appointments to web-based services better known for handling birthday-party RSVPs and online yoga sessions.
Several Florida counties have deployed Eventbrite. Some governments in Oklahoma dabbled with SignUpGenius and one county in New Jersey was still using the service. Elsewhere, some seekers of the Covid-19 vaccine reported hours-long holds on appointment hotlinesâonly to be disconnectedâor logging on to websites that lock them out.
âSigning up to get a Covid vaccine is like trying to get a Beatles ticket,â said Jacob Saur, public safety director in Floridaâs Manatee County, where demand for the shot crashed the web sign-up sheet he had set up.
Dec 14, 2020, 5:48 PM – Updated on Dec 14, 2020, 10:25 PM
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“If we do not change the trajectory, we could very well be headed to shut down” all non-essential businesses, Cuomo said Monday at a virus briefing.
The state reported 5,712 hospitalizations, an increase of more than 1,000 in the past week. If that pace continues, it will be at 11,000 in a month, and some regions may be overwhelmed, Cuomo said.
The increase is of particular concern in dense regions like New York City, the governor said. Cuomo shut down the city’s indoor dining on Monday, even as he cited statistics showing that three-fourths of new cases come from private gatherings.