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.
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