UPDATE: Registration fills up for Wednesday Tacoma vaccine event; more events planned
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced Tuesday that registration had filled quickly for its next COVID-19 vaccine drive-through event to be held Wednesday.
The event will be at Franklin Pierce High School from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is set to vaccinate 1,200.
On Tuesday, the department said on Twitter there were problems where the registration link did not display on the health department’s website.
“We experienced technical difficulties with our website’s back end that did not allow us to publish the link on the site, as promised, at 9 a.m. this morning. We are working with our website vendor to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” the department wrote.
The link was accessible via social media and on Pierce County’s website: co.pierce.wa.us/7096/Covid-19-Vaccine-Information.
“We apologize to those of you who were waiting on our website to see the link pop up,” it added. “We will continue to develop ways for you to register that depend less on rapid use of a registration link that you can access.”
Despite the glitch, spots filled in under a half hour for the event.
For two vaccine events held earlier this month that let in 2,000 people, all reservations filled within 16 minutes.
“We know some people don’t have access to the Internet or transportation,” the Health Department tweeted. “We’re working on plans to reach them soon. In the meantime, please reach out to your eligible loved ones and help them if you can.”
You can sign up for notifications at tpchd.org/notify. Registration links will not be sent to those who sign up for notifications.
This story was originally published February 15, 2021 at 4:17 PM.
