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NYC Monkeypox Vaccine Site Is Crashing From High Demand

As New Yorkers race to grab limited vaccine appointments, the government site is failing to keep up.

A vial of smallpox/monkeypox vaccine.
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By Carrington York and Madison Muller

July 12, 2022 at 8:39 PM UTC

Updated on

July 12, 2022 at 9:42 PM UTC

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Less than 30 minutes after New York City released online appointments for the monkeypox vaccine, the site crashed due to high traffic.

Shortly after the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene opened its vaccine scheduling site on Tuesday at 1 p.m. local time, users online reported that the website had crashed and was inaccessible. By 1:29 p.m. local time, the NYC Health Department confirmed on Twitter that the site was down and it was working on a fix.