![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “So, I hope we don’t have that scenario.”īut Thursday morning made clear that vaccine websites were already buckling under the strain and crashing as new appointments were added. and start refreshing their tabs and then, you know, posting about how they all brought the website down,” Adams said in an interview last week. “It kind of hearkens back to like, a college course sign up, at least for me. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Īs more people click on vaccine appointment websites, the traffic has created a heavy burden on servers, explained Olivia Adams, a software engineer who built a website that aggregates available vaccine appointments at clinics across the state. Massachusetts' vaccine appointment site crashed Thursday morning, just as many became eligible to register for appointments. Instead of showing clinics, mass vaccination sites and pharmacies with available appointments, the website displayed a confused cephalopod. On Thursday morning, as a million more people became eligible to get the vaccine, the state's website crashed. Now, traffic is stampeding clinic, pharmacy and state websites as they jockey for appointments. With vaccines opening up to all Massachusetts residents age 65 and older and those with two or more qualifying medical conditions, the number of people eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine soars into the millions. (Courtesy Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox) This article is more than 2 years old. Fenway's scoreboard turned over to designate its use as a mass vaccination site, as seen on Jan. ![]()
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