Minnesota’s Vaccine Registration Website Crashes Under High Demand

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota state vaccine registration site crashed, Tuesday as newly eligible seniors tried to get appointments for some of the few doses available to the group.

The state began taking appointments at noon Tuesday for a limited supply of 12,000 doses available to seniors, teachers and child care workers at nine sites statewide. The call center received more than 83,000 calls, with up to 2,000 hits per second.

“Thank you for your patience. We all apologize for the frustrations, but those frustrations will help us to work through and build better systems,” Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said.

State health officials say half of the doses are reserved for seniors and half are for teachers and child care workers.