From people I know that have gotten vaccines in the Bay, it sounds like appointments have been booked quickly after being posted / there aren’t a bunch of openings.
This was true in February, but I think it’s no longer true, due to a combination of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being added and the currently-eligible groups being mostly done. Berkeley Public Health sent me this link which shows hundreds of available appointment slots over the next days at a dozen different Bay Area locations.
(EDIT: See below, the map I linked to may be mixing vaccine and PCR-test appointments together in a way that confused me.)
I don’t see anything at that link now. I expect those openings were taken?
I’m in Facebook groups where people in California and the Bay Area specifically are searching for appointments (and leftover vaccines); it seems pretty difficult for eligible people to find an appointment.
[Edit: the link appears to be misleading, see my follow-up question below]
That does seem quite compelling, thanks for sharing. I think I’ll check again in a couple days as it sounds like CA is opening up slots to 4.4M more people tomorrow. Perhaps there is an effect where right at the start of a new section of people, there are some extra slots?
Hmm actually on second-look, that site doesn’t seem to show any available slots for the vaccine, but does show some for pcr tests? Perhaps more will open up soon.
This was true in February, but I think it’s no longer true, due to a combination of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being added and the currently-eligible groups being mostly done. Berkeley Public Health sent me this link which shows hundreds of available appointment slots over the next days at a dozen different Bay Area locations.
(EDIT: See below, the map I linked to may be mixing vaccine and PCR-test appointments together in a way that confused me.)
I don’t see anything at that link now. I expect those openings were taken?
I’m in Facebook groups where people in California and the Bay Area specifically are searching for appointments (and leftover vaccines); it seems pretty difficult for eligible people to find an appointment.
There are not currently a bunch of openings (probably because eligibility just expanded).
[Edit: the link appears to be misleading, see my follow-up question below]
That does seem quite compelling, thanks for sharing. I think I’ll check again in a couple days as it sounds like CA is opening up slots to 4.4M more people tomorrow. Perhaps there is an effect where right at the start of a new section of people, there are some extra slots?
Hmm actually on second-look, that site doesn’t seem to show any available slots for the vaccine, but does show some for pcr tests? Perhaps more will open up soon.
[addition: I found one site 3.5 hours away from Berkeley on that site that does appear to have openings today, https://curative.com/sites/26207#9/36.1656/-119.3247 but didn’t find any vaccine openings for the places in the bay]