Nearly Half of DC's Vaccine Doses Have Gone to Non-Residents

[Anonymous]

Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

I think that the issue is accountability? Where are the numbers being counted so that the appropriate jurisdiction gets the vaccinations. Is that too hard a concept...accountability?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

Um, no--the point is that each state has a plan to vaccinate their own residents. If DC residents are cut out, they cannot protect their own health, get back in the workforce, visit kids, relatives attend funerals etc. We have actually been doing a GREAT job keeping the rates down in DC, behaving and doing the right thing. Now vaccinate us.

I would love to know the Mayor's entering argument for vaccines for DC. Did she tell the FEDS 700,000--the actual population? Or a million, to account for vaccinating workers from other states? If the latter, fine, as long as we have the resources to administer. if the former, then residents are getting shorted by our local government, while other local governments look out for their resides. #notright

This whole discussion can be 'solved' by DC GOV releasing the actual reasoning and figures behind this effort to vaccinate out of state workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

Um, no--the point is that each state has a plan to vaccinate their own residents. If DC residents are cut out, they cannot protect their own health, get back in the workforce, visit kids, relatives attend funerals etc. We have actually been doing a GREAT job keeping the rates down in DC, behaving and doing the right thing. Now vaccinate us.

I would love to know the Mayor's entering argument for vaccines for DC. Did she tell the FEDS 700,000--the actual population? Or a million, to account for vaccinating workers from other states? If the latter, fine, as long as we have the resources to administer. if the former, then residents are getting shorted by our local government, while other local governments look out for their resides. #notright

This whole discussion can be 'solved' by DC GOV releasing the actual reasoning and figures behind this effort to vaccinate out of state workers.

Ever since the first allocation of doses (for health care workers) when it was clear that the distribution was based on population but DC wasn’t getting extra to cover out of state workers Bowser has been pushing the feds and MD and VA for more doses. They have given DC some but not enough to make up for the shortfall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

Um, no--the point is that each state has a plan to vaccinate their own residents. If DC residents are cut out, they cannot protect their own health, get back in the workforce, visit kids, relatives attend funerals etc. We have actually been doing a GREAT job keeping the rates down in DC, behaving and doing the right thing. Now vaccinate us.

I would love to know the Mayor's entering argument for vaccines for DC. Did she tell the FEDS 700,000--the actual population? Or a million, to account for vaccinating workers from other states? If the latter, fine, as long as we have the resources to administer. if the former, then residents are getting shorted by our local government, while other local governments look out for their resides. #notright

This whole discussion can be 'solved' by DC GOV releasing the actual reasoning and figures behind this effort to vaccinate out of state workers.

Ever since the first allocation of doses (for health care workers) when it was clear that the distribution was based on population but DC wasn’t getting extra to cover out of state workers Bowser has been pushing the feds and MD and VA for more doses. They have given DC some but not enough to make up for the shortfall

It was DC GOV and Dept. of Health decision to cover out of state workers though, so they should have asked for more in the first place and they certainly should do so now. If you look at DC GOVS phased vaccination plan, the list of essential workers that rolls out just never ends. It includes "IT" and "Members of the Media" among others. They need to establish contractually enough vaccine from MD/VA/the Feds to cover these folks, or they need to re-consider why they are giving vaccines to out of staters when they only have requested enough quantities to cover residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd.

Um, no--the point is that each state has a plan to vaccinate their own residents. If DC residents are cut out, they cannot protect their own health, get back in the workforce, visit kids, relatives attend funerals etc. We have actually been doing a GREAT job keeping the rates down in DC, behaving and doing the right thing. Now vaccinate us.

I would love to know the Mayor's entering argument for vaccines for DC. Did she tell the FEDS 700,000--the actual population? Or a million, to account for vaccinating workers from other states? If the latter, fine, as long as we have the resources to administer. if the former, then residents are getting shorted by our local government, while other local governments look out for their resides. #notright

This whole discussion can be 'solved' by DC GOV releasing the actual reasoning and figures behind this effort to vaccinate out of state workers.

Ever since the first allocation of doses (for health care workers) when it was clear that the distribution was based on population but DC wasn’t getting extra to cover out of state workers Bowser has been pushing the feds and MD and VA for more doses. They have given DC some but not enough to make up for the shortfall

It was DC GOV and Dept. of Health decision to cover out of state workers though, so they should have asked for more in the first place and they certainly should do so now. If you look at DC GOVS phased vaccination plan, the list of essential workers that rolls out just never ends. It includes "IT" and "Members of the Media" among others. They need to establish contractually enough vaccine from MD/VA/the Feds to cover these folks, or they need to re-consider why they are giving vaccines to out of staters when they only have requested enough quantities to cover residents.

PP here--

Look at the "workers' covered under "Preservation of Societal Functions" in these Tiers, and keep in mind that DCs population triples when you count out of state workforce. They have every category of "worker" here. There policy to date is to vaccinate residents and out of state residents as these worker categories come up. In the very last Tier, they have all DC residents 16 and up not included in previous phases. Gee, thanks!

[Anonymous]

Sorry ^ -- here it is

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/page_content/attachments/Vaccination-Program-Phases-with-Tiers.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait til you find out how many people from the suburbs came into our city for free Covid tests.

Or for a free public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait til you find out how many people from the suburbs came into our city for free Covid tests.

Or for a free public education.

The Great DC Giveaway! C'mon Bowser. Look out for residents. Fine to vaccinate MD + VA if you have formally asked for (and recieved) more vaccine. A whiny message on a mask at pressers.is kind of sad. Its like, "get me out of this mess (I created)"

[Anonymous]

MD & VA donated some of their vaccine supply to the District.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maryland-virginia-donate-vaccine-doses-to-washington-dc/ar-BB1c3e3d

[Nomicat]

That's absurd! It seems like they distribution of the vaccine is out of whack everywhere. I know several health care workers that are just getting vaccinated now - after working for months not knowing if they'd get sick. And yet politicians and athletes seem to get it at their convenience.

[Anonymous]

Nomicat wrote:That's absurd! It seems like they distribution of the vaccine is out of whack everywhere. I know several health care workers that are just getting vaccinated now - after working for months not knowing if they'd get sick. And yet politicians and athletes seem to get it at their convenience.

I think that this is a myth? Can you give an example of an athletic league which has vaccinated it's players already? I know that they are all looking at how to do it, but that is simply good planning. But I am not sure a single league has cut in front of the public to inoculate its league. Though the story plays great on social networks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MD & VA donated some of their vaccine supply to the District.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maryland-virginia-donate-vaccine-doses-to-washington-dc/ar-BB1c3e3d

Yes. This one time donation is not nearly enough to cover a continuous 50% giveaway of DCs vaccine supply. Terrible planning and coordination by Mayor B and the Dept. Of Health

[Anonymous]

Here are the numbers as just reported on the local news:

62,219 doses of vaccine administered in DC to this point.

29,249 of those DC administered doses were to people who are self described as non DC residents but who work in the city.

16,000 doses have been provided to DC beyond the Federal allocation by both Maryland and Virginia (8,000 doses from each state).

At this moment there is no existing agreement to provided further doses from Maryland or Virginia to DC.

At this moment Mayor Bowser has said that she will work on future doses of vaccine being provided to DC from Maryland and Virginia.

The story pointed out that there are teachers living in DC but who teach in Fairfax County who have been inoculated in Virginia under the Virginia plan and allocation. It seemed to provide this as an example that it was not only DC inoculating non DC residents.

There was no suggestion that the number of DC residents getting their shots in Md and Va approached the 13,000 dose deficit DC appears to be in currently.

Story closed by saying that once federal workers are included in the numbers, there is a potential for further widening of the discrepancy.

[Anonymous]

Dc to date has vaccinated a little less than 1/12 of residents rather than slightly under 1/6 (which was within reach). There is no indication that DC intends to cease vaccinating out of staters until they have secured enough vaccine to cover them; only that they have made the decision to keep vaccinating DC residents at half the rate of what would be possible with the vaccine allocation (based on DCs population) that they secured with their original requests.