Colin A. Young The first day that it was up and running, a hotline that offers to answer COVID-19 testing and vaccination questions for Cape Cod residents was bombarded with calls, 990 of them in the first eight and a half hours, officials said. Staffed by 15 volunteers from the county's Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps, the hotline aims to smooth over some of the confusion and frustration around the state's rollout of the vaccine by fielding questions about testing and vaccination sites, vaccine eligibility and more at 774-330-3001. Public dissatisfaction with the pace of the vaccine rollout has been a persistent theme during the weekly updates provided from the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force and remained so Thursday. As he's done for about a month now, Sen. Julian Cyr of Truro urged people to be patient and defended the Baker administration's phased approach to the rollout. He also placed blame for the sputtering process on the Trump administration.