ZSW [C M Y K]A1 Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 MCCONNELL: TRUMP’S CAPITOL MOB ‘WAS FED LIES’ WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY 36° 26° January 20, 2021 Brief thaw, then some ¬ subzero nights. B6 Rush for vaccine crashes website Online registration was second. The site closed to new swamped, but 5,000 made registrants at 2 p.m. in order to Some of state’s youngest serve people stuck in a wait- appointments this week. ing queue, but in the end con- nected more than 5,000 people students back in school By JEREMY OLSON with vaccine appointments this
[email protected] Thursday through Saturday. B y MARA KLECKER, ANTHONY used for at-home learning. Another 4,000 people were LONETREE and PETER WARREN “It’s like our fourth first day M innesotans 65 and older on a wait list for this week’s Star Tribune staff writers of school,” Cantu said, refer- clogged phone lines and appointments. ring to the school’s switches crashed a state website Tues- State IT C ommissioner Principal Roberto Cantu between distance, hybrid and day as they sought to make Tarek Tomes blamed a pri- donned his plastic face shield now full in-person learning so appointments for a new, lim- vate vendor’s web page that and greeted students by name far this school year. ited supply of COVID-19 vac- handled the registrations as they jumped off the bus at Tuesday marked the first cine at nine test sites. and promised a better expe- Poplar Bridge Elementary phase of bringing many of Online registration rience when people sign up School in Bloomington on Minnesota’s elementary stu- launched at noon but was dis- next Tuesday for next week’s Tuesday morning.