First day of expanded COVID-19 vaccination eligibilty

and, of course, the state's website is down hard:
( vaxfinder.mass.gov returning a 504 error )

That's the state's website for finding vaccination sites, https://vaxfinder.mass.gov, returning a "504 Gateway Error" result - which should only happen with a backend crash.
BTW, even when working as designed, that site doesn't actually let you sign up for vaccinations; it just gives you links to the signup pages at specific vaccination sites.

Obviously, the state didn't learn squat from their botched rollout of the fancy new Daily Dashboard back on January 4, where the Tableau application crashed due to heavier than expected usage.

Local COVID-19 updates

( Wall-o-text, with less than a hundred towns in the red )

Sigh. Deaths and cases both up day-to-day; fortunately, the percent-positive ratio continues to trend downward, as do the hospitalization counts. Also good news: the number of cities with the highest, "red" risk color code is down substantially again; this week's count of 66 "red" towns is below one hundred for the first time since December 3 (when the count was 97).

Meanwhile, the state website that is supposed to help people find vaccination sites crashed hard this morning, the first day that folks 65+ or with multiple medical conditions were eligible to sign up for vaccinations:
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Well, guess what, Governor? You're not the only one pissed off about this. You're just the guy who's supposed to be ensuring this stuff works. Did you learn nothing about massive website rollouts from the Tableau fiasco just six weeks ago?

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 28 active and 739 cumulative cases as of February 17; I do wish I knew what their update schedule was. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 3PM on February 12, 2021 reported 717 cumulative cases with 25 individuals in isolation, 661 persons recovered and 31 fatalities.