APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) – An online system for Fox Cities’ COVID-19 vaccination clinic filled all 1,000 available vacancies for next week’s clinic in 15 minutes.
Unfortunately, an error allowed the system to make more appointments available – another 4,700. The health department is blaming a “registration system configuration error”.
Outagamie County is making calls on Friday and Saturday to the 1,000 people who are eligible to receive the vaccine next Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at Fox Cities Exhibition Center.
People whose appointments were made in error were contacted by email with information on how to make an appointment from the week of February 8.
Action 2 News reported Thursday about plans for the mass vaccination clinic at the exhibition center. Health officials have predicted a high demand because anyone 65 and older is eligible for the clinic, regardless of where they live.
The clinic is a partnership between the health departments of Outagamie County and the city of Appleton, Ascension Wisconsin and ThedaCare. They plan to maintain the clinic for three days a week as long as the vaccine is available. They are starting with a goal of 1,000 “injections in the arm” a week, or about 333 a day, and increasing that number if vaccine distribution increases.
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