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‘Your estimated wait time is 50,475 minutes’: State vaccine appointment site hits more snags
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Users hoping to book appointments using the state’s vaccine finder website Thursday reported encountering excruciating estimated wait times amid a crush of eligible Massachusetts residents seeking newly available appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine.
As of about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the vaxfinder site was not experiencing the same crashes users saw last week when many logged onto the site hoping to score an appointment. But many users who were placed in a “digital waiting room” that was implemented to help manage the flow of traffic reported they were given astronomically long estimated wait times, with one reported by WCVB displaying 50,475 minutes. That translates to roughly 35 days.
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