Vaccine Rollout Pushes County Health Department Websites Offline Florida counties experienced trouble with vaccination signup websites over the weekend, leading to confusion over appointment times, frustrated senior citizens, and overwhelmed local public health officials. Shutterstock/LookerStudio As the administration of COVID-19 vaccines advances, local health departments have hit technical road bumps as county vaccination sites continue to crash. Florida counties, including Broward County, Pinellas County and Hillsborough County, experienced several outages over the weekend, resulting in local health officials scrambling to get their sites back online as quickly as possible. “In Pinellas County, we have a population of 250,000+ individuals that are 65 years old and older,” Tom Lovino, a public information officer at the Pinellas County Department of Health, said. “We did anticipate a great demand for the vaccine; however, we did not anticipate that our system was not robust enough to handle it.”