Registration for COVID-19 vaccine at Alamodome site is complete within minutes

SAN ANTONIO Registration to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Alamodome Mass, no cost COVID-19 vaccination site is currently full, according to the city’s website.

Registration opened on Saturday at 9 a.m. for residents of Bexar County and others in one of the other 26 municipal districts. However, if you sign up and try to register for the vaccine, you will be notified that all places have already been filled.

According to city officials, the 9,000 available slots for next week were taken within six minutes of registration opening. More than 11,000 people were on the city’s registration website when it opened at 9 p.m.

The site was also difficult to access, probably due to how many residents tried to register at the same time.

Assistant City Manager, dr. Colleen Bridger, however, said in a statement that the system did not really crash when residents tried to register.

Although enough spots have now been filled, she said more doses are coming in.

‘The appointments are full, the system has not cracked. As the state of Texas sends us more vaccine, we will make more appointments. There is enough for everyone, it just takes time to make / distribute the vaccine, ”said dr. Bridger said.

Only 1,500 eligible residents per entry can receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and the vaccination clinic officially opens on Monday. But city officials have reassured those unable to register that more vaccine doses will be on the way in the coming weeks.

Those eligible to receive the vaccines include health workers and residents at long-term care facilities, known as Phase 1A, and Phase 1B, which includes residents over the age of 65 or residents aged 16 and over with a chronic medical condition.

These chronic medical conditions include: cancer, chronic kidney disease, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), heart conditions, solid organ transplantation, obesity and severe obesity, pregnancy, sickle cell disease and type 2 diabetes.

We have contacted city officials for more insight on vaccine registration, and we will bring more updates as they become available.

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