[Hidden-tech] Mass Vax website problems

[Frances Fahey]

Check early every Thursday. I have used the state's site to find appointments, and last week, I signed in at about 10:30 and got an appt. at a CVS. This was after going into an online "waiting room" for about 5 minutes.

When you go to the state site, check smaller individual sites that do not immediately offer the message "full" but just say "see details". For example, I checked at about 10:30 this morning, and although the general message on the state site was that nothing was available, I clicked "see details" next to the Holyoke CVS and found availability at the Greenfield CVS! You can also go straight to CVS's own website instead. I do recommend CVS (and probably Walgreen's), as you can wait inside instead of in a car, and they are very well organized on crowd control and process. The one I went to in Palmer had a private room set up for the vax itself, and chairs for people to wait before and after the vax.

Best of luck. Next Thursday, they will be opening up to teachers, so hopefully they will work on more availability of sites before then--and the J&J brand will be available, so more supply than today.



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this is has been a hot topic in many venues
Since your question is how, not why, I'll hold the very techie why's.
The simple why is the very high level of demand and too many 'medical'
not 'Google/amazon' level solutions.

If you are not Franklin county, FRCOG is not of use, for those up here,
check out at frcog.org
That's where we got appts for next week.

Any help for Hampshire county - more local sites seem to be less likely
to be overloaded.

Stay well - Rich

On 3/4/2021 10:34 AM, Marcia Yudkin via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Anyone else trying to get vaccine appointments online?
>
> The first week, the appointment website crashed.
>
> The second week, I applied the very moment they opened up the queue and got a number of 30,000.  By the time I got to the front of the line, there were no more appointments.
>
> This week (today) I tried simultaneously with three different computers and different browsers, and on one, I got to the front of the line but when they transferred me to another website, I got a red error message.  When the number on the other computers came up, the very same thing happened.  Am I doing something wrong, or why is this happening?  I am really frustrated.
>
> Is there anyone who is offering advice and troubleshooting for getting through on the vaccine site?
>
> Did anyone actually get an appointment?
>
> Marcia Yudkin
> Goshen
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