Cobb County COVID-19 Vaccination Site Temporarily Down

COBB COUNTY, GA — On the same day all Georgians age 65 and older can begin scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments, Cobb County’s vaccination website is temporarily down, officials announced in a news release around 9 a.m. Jan. 11.

This website is a state-run website that crashed this morning due to an “overwhelming response,” the release said. Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health said they are working to bring the servers back online and hope to do so “in the coming hours,” according to the news release.

When the server comes back online, those age 65 and older can visit the Cobb & Douglas Public Health website to schedule a vaccination appointment. Appointments are required to receive the vaccine, and those who sign up should be prepared to wait at least 15 minutes post-vaccination for monitoring.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, announced on New Year's Eve that the state would be moving into Phase 1A+ in the coming weeks, adding more groups of Georgians to the eligibility criteria for COVID-19 vaccinations.

This expansion added long-term care facility staff and residents, first responders, law enforcement officers and Georgians age 65 and older to the list of people able to receive the vaccine, as long as enough doses are available. In some rural areas of Georgia, vaccine vials were sitting in freezers due to low demand, while there was a vaccination waiting list in parts of metro Atlanta, Toomey said in a press conference Dec. 31.