After three days of trying, I managed to get a vaccine appointment in Oakland, simple and quick once I actually got an appointment, in and out in under a half an hour. Prior to that, it was looking like I might have to go up to Clear Lake.
A few interesting things. When I called to cancel the appointment in Clear Lake, the pharmacist knew it was on Thursday because they are only vaccinating on Thursdays, at the only vaccination site in that part of the county. Not enough takers.
And while the vaccine sites are overrun in the Bay Area, in Bakersfield - home of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - the vaccine sites are so underwhelmed due to lack of acceptance by the locals, that they just threw up a shingle and said "no appointment necessary, walk ins accepted" - which of course led to people from the Coast trucking out to Cal State Bakersfield to get vaccinated.
Kern County - 2.5x the case rate of the Bay Area since day 0