There's probably close to 800-1000 appointments available there right now.
Also follow @vaccinetime on Twitter.
Right now about 80% of the over 16-18 year olds are eligible the remainder become eligible on Monday. There's been lots of appointments for the last week or so despite the J&J setbacks (MA had a big drop of J&J from the Feds recently and consequentially had to cancel & rebook some big vaccine events).
I’m in CA, so I’m not familiar with that site in particular, but the similar tracker sites here also say there are tons of appointments available, but once you actually try to sign up there’s nothing available. I’d be surprised if 10% of those “available” vaccines are actually available.
I've helped a number of people get appointments in MA and had zero issues securing probably a half-dozen appts for people in the last 10 days. If the trackers are showing say >3-5 appts then there are usually some actually available (the macovidvaccine site is scraping/updating quite frequently).
Also, because of the way the MA state reservation system works -- they give you 25 minutes to fill out the appointment details once you "claim" a slot, often times you'll find a decent number of timed-out appointments showing up after the fact. Not to mention there are plenty cancellations (as presumably people are booking for family or maybe just vaccine shopping).
If you're in CA and happen to have a car, just plan a road trip to one of the "red" counties in the middle of the state. Sad stereotype but true. We're in the Bay area and got ours at a nearly empty "mass-vaccination" facility in the central valley.
I was able to get myself and my family signed up through UCI Health. But I got a friend, and his girlfriend, who drove up to the central valley (he's originally from the Fresno area) to get theirs. Another friend, who lives on my street in south OC, drove out to Redlands to get his. Another friend and his wife who live down here got their first shot this weekend up in Livermore, where her family is. They'll make another trip up north to get the 2nd.
It's all pretty dumb and arbitrary to me, the way this thing is being handled. In each case they were unable to get theirs locally, everything was booked with no insight into when the next availability would be.
Check out: https://www.macovidvaccines.com
There's probably close to 800-1000 appointments available there right now.
Also follow @vaccinetime on Twitter.
Right now about 80% of the over 16-18 year olds are eligible the remainder become eligible on Monday. There's been lots of appointments for the last week or so despite the J&J setbacks (MA had a big drop of J&J from the Feds recently and consequentially had to cancel & rebook some big vaccine events).