Broward County’s COVID-19 vaccine sign-up site went back online. It was a rocky start
The Florida Department of Health Broward County announced via a 6:21 a.m. Tweet Sunday that its COVID-19 vaccination appointment website is back online.
And that began a day of online-offline, site up-site down-site slow-site down performance.
By 9 a.m., it was giving people a “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” notation. It was back up at 9:12 a.m....and back down at 9:20 a.m. with “502 Bad Gateway.”
At 9:25 a.m., going to browardcovidvaccine.com found, “We sincerely apologize. This site has been taken down for maintenance in order to serve you better. Thank You.”
It appeared to be operational for several steps into the process at 9:45 a.m. But, by noon, it had been taken down again.
At Sunday’s end, the site claimed it allowed 26,465 people over 65 to make all the available appointments.
“Please check back to this website often as more sites and appointments will be added over the coming days and weeks. Thank you,” the site said as Monday began.
The website is the only place senior citizens can sign-up for novel coronavirus vaccinations in Broward County and was taken down Wednesday after drowning in vaccine interest. It doesn’t, however, seem to include the Holiday Park site that the city of Fort Lauderdale said would be switching from testing to vaccination this week.
“If you have previously registered you should have received an email confirmation, please check your spam or junk email folders,” a Department of Health Broward County release said. “For all future appointments, a confirmation email will be sent within 48 hours of the registration.”
Vaccines are available by appointment starting Sunday at Tradewinds Park, 3600 W Sample Rd., Coconut Creek and Vista View Park, 4001 SW 142nd Ave., Davie. Vaccination starts by appointment Tuesday at Markham Park, 16001 West State Road 84, Sunrise and Lauderhill’s Central Regional Park, 3700 NW 11th Place.
Broward Health is also a vaccination site, but has stopped accepting appointments due to high demand.
This story was originally published January 3, 2021 at 8:24 AM.
