Florida’s seniors and first responders have had to use Eventbrite to schedule vaccine appointments or wait in hours-long first-come, first-served lines for vaccines. | Octavio Jones/Getty Images

The event ticket sales platform is far from perfect, but some counties say it’s their best and only option.

In the midst of a disorganized, decentralized, and disappointing coronavirus vaccine rollout in the United States, some states and counties are turning to unlikely tools to get their allotted vaccines out to as many people as possible. In many Florida counties, for instance, Eventbrite has become the only way to sign up for the vaccine.

As it has done with pretty much every aspect of this pandemic, the federal government is largely leaving it to individual states to figure out how to distribute vaccines. Each state has had to come up with its