‘It feels like a placebo’: Mexico’s vaccine program sees disastrous launch

Pace for vaccinations has slowed as government website to register crashes repeatedly and Covid death toll is third highest

Rodolfo spent hour after aggravating hour trying to register his elderly mother for a Covid-19 vaccination through a Mexican government website, only for the system to crash repeatedly.

I spent three days fighting with the website," he said. My mom would have been unable to do it without me."