Ed. Note: they will be another chance Saturday for those with priority zip codes (see below) due to yesterday’s outage.
Some early reports from this morning: “and today the Captcha is broken.”
“DC has to do something different with this vaccination portal. Who is held responsible for this continued failure ?! “
Captcha does not work on the DC vaccination website. Keep telling me it’s false when it isn’t. Has happened three times now. “
“The benefits of knowing http errors: I got past 1 page of the DC Covid Vaccine system and got a 503 error (system is overloaded or down). Cool cool cool cool. “
“Passed the captcha and got this” (above)
From DC Health yesterday:
“We apologize for the problems with the vaccination portal this morning. The district’s COVID-19 vaccination appointment portal did not perform as expected due to a technical error of judgment that prevented eligible residents with a qualifying medical condition from registering. As the IT team worked to stabilize the website due to heavy traffic, there were delays in finding and resolving the eligibility criteria issue.
We know how stressful this is, and we regret that this unfortunate situation arose on a day when many of our residents with chronic health conditions were newly eligible for vaccination appointments. The technical judgment flaw has now been fixed, and with tens of thousands of residents re-eligible for the vaccine this week, we are currently working with Microsoft in anticipation of extreme traffic during future appointments releases.
The portal and call center will open as scheduled to all eligible persons on Friday, February 26 at 9:00 am. 4,350 appointments will be available. We are also adding a registration session on Saturday, February 27 at 9:00 am for eligible residents with qualifying medical conditions in priority zip codes. There are 3,500 appointments available. Appointments can be scheduled by visiting vaccinate.dc.gov or by calling 1-855-363-0333.
We know that the vaccine we currently have available is not enough to meet the demand of our residents and employees. Therefore, we will continue to advocate for DC to get more vaccine so that any resident who wants a vaccine can get one. Our goal is to facilitate equitable and efficient distribution of the vaccine. “