DC is dead last in percentage of residents vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:I may be oversimplifying the issue here, but why doesn't DCHealth continue to give vaccines out the way it is to workers who work in the city and then at the end of the week, perhaps in a weekly "hot wash" DC, MD, and VA health officials reconcile doses administered and adjust vaccines within their jurisdictions accordingly ensuring everyone gets a vaccine at their place of work and that the state/city vaccine doses are injected ultimately into state and city residents.

At the end of the day everything is transparent to the worker and the state/city health department resolves numbers on the margins.

Don't we have working relationships with MD and VA?

Why is this a FED issue if it can so easily be handled at a local level.

Your idea would work but EVERYBODY here is missing the Mayor's point. She is forcing this to be a Federal issue so that the Fed has to account for DC as a state. If she worked this out at the local level, DC would not be in morning briefings downtown. The Mayor's goal is to elevate as many issues as possible to a federal level because that furthers the statehood argument. If she solves this locally, there is no reward for a good city mayor vaccinating her tiny city quickly. But there is a huge dividend to be won if the President has to read every day that DC has the lowest inoculation rate in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising. [/quote

"Total failure" depends on your priorities. I'd prefer to know that my medical care providers, and other people that I might interact with out of necessity have been vaccinated -- because I probably won't be able to be for some time. I think efforts to get the most vulnerable people and those who are most likely to interact with the most vulnerable people vaccinated. I don't care what state they sleep in -- and neither do contagious diseases.

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It works both ways, though. My DH and my best friend who both live in DC were vaccinated in MD because of their jobs. They spend no time mixing with the DC population and a lot of time mixing with the MD population. DC is small so it has many people who live outside it and work inside it. You want to vaccinate the people who are most likely to spread and catch it in your location to stop the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:It works both ways, though. My DH and my best friend who both live in DC were vaccinated in MD because of their jobs. They spend no time mixing with the DC population and a lot of time mixing with the MD population. DC is small so it has many people who live outside it and work inside it. You want to vaccinate the people who are most likely to spread and catch it in your location to stop the pandemic.

Yeah, this has been debunked as a good strategy for DC residents and their health. DC residents are last in the nation, get it?

BUT THE FEDS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising. [/quote

"Total failure" depends on your priorities. I'd prefer to know that my medical care providers, and other people that I might interact with out of necessity have been vaccinated -- because I probably won't be able to be for some time. I think efforts to get the most vulnerable people and those who are most likely to interact with the most vulnerable people vaccinated. I don't care what state they sleep in -- and neither do contagious diseases.

Health care workers have been vaccinated and its moot. The co tinued roll out of the DC phased vaccination plan includes IT workers and members of the media and just about everyone else on par with or ahead of actual residents. It doesn't secure extra doses, or acknowledge they have eligibility in their own state. Do you interact with members of the media on a daily basis? I've been sitting in my house since March like Mayor Bowser advised.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It works both ways, though. My DH and my best friend who both live in DC were vaccinated in MD because of their jobs. They spend no time mixing with the DC population and a lot of time mixing with the MD population. DC is small so it has many people who live outside it and work inside it. You want to vaccinate the people who are most likely to spread and catch it in your location to stop the pandemic.

Yeah, this has been debunked as a good strategy for DC residents and their health. DC residents are last in the nation, get it?

BUT THE FEDS!

The problem is that DC isn't being treated well by the federal government that is doing vaccine allocations.

Because DC is urban, and surrounded by suburbs, different from every other state, it needs more vaccine. It has more commuters.

But the only way to get more vaccine from the feds is to be politically stronger.

This is why DC must be made a state. Our residents will be shortchanged until we have two Senators that can advocate for us.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It works both ways, though. My DH and my best friend who both live in DC were vaccinated in MD because of their jobs. They spend no time mixing with the DC population and a lot of time mixing with the MD population. DC is small so it has many people who live outside it and work inside it. You want to vaccinate the people who are most likely to spread and catch it in your location to stop the pandemic.

Yeah, this has been debunked as a good strategy for DC residents and their health. DC residents are last in the nation, get it?

BUT THE FEDS!

The problem is that DC isn't being treated well by the federal government that is doing vaccine allocations.

Because DC is urban, and surrounded by suburbs, different from every other state, it needs more vaccine. It has more commuters.

But the only way to get more vaccine from the feds is to be politically stronger.

This is why DC must be made a state. Our residents will be shortchanged until we have two Senators that can advocate for us.

DCs handling of vaccine distribution is the worse case for statehood ever. We could have asked for sufficient vaccine from the start. Instead we made a sub par "handshake deal" with MD/VA that has left DC residents last in the land. So now we are whining to the Feds, which might solve a fraction of the ongoing problem. Bowsers "new strategy" should be fully looking out for DC residents, not playing statehood politics or footsie with the neighbors.

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Sabotaging DC's vaccination rollout to make a petty point about statehood is imbecilic and impeachable. In other words, Pure Bowser.

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I'm not too worried about this. It's all about the total number of americans that can get a vaccine.

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Not surprised at all. DC is a disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not too worried about this. It's all about the total number of americans that can get a vaccine.

If it were all about the whole nation would have first come first serve clinics. But thanks for trying!

[Anonymous]

"D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced late Wednesday that she expanded eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine. Beginning Thursday, workers in grocery stores, health and human services and social services outreach, manufacturing and food packaging will become eligible to book vaccination appointments in the city." - Washington Post

Good for them. They deserve protection. What is the Mayor's strategy to secure vaccine to cover the large number from out of state? Or will it come from supply for DC Seniors, who also deserve protection? MD + VA officials must just be laughing to themselves over DCs largesse.

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https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_02-17-21.pdf

Instead of Covid news and updates - we have Bowser's political agenda.

She needs to go.

Why is there no mass vaccination site in DC?? Convention center is very accessible to all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_02-17-21.pdf

Instead of Covid news and updates - we have Bowser's political agenda.

She needs to go.

Why is there no mass vaccination site in DC?? Convention center is very accessible to all.

I have no clue. A friend of mine was just vaccinated at 6 Flags and said it was easy as pie. You could set up drive through AND walk up on the National Mall.

Too bad MD vaccinations are not open to DC residents, in the same numbers as we are vaccinating MD residents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_02-17-21.pdf

Instead of Covid news and updates - we have Bowser's political agenda.

She needs to go.

Why is there no mass vaccination site in DC?? Convention center is very accessible to all.

Or use the parking lots at RFK stadium for drive-through vaccinations, like MD is doing at Six Flags.

Bowser is bringing the suck.