Columbia Heights has the most COVID cases, but isn’t a priority zip code?

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

The amount of vaccine given out via the portal has more than doubled in recent weeks.

This graph does not show a rise in resident doses.

Sure it does. Resident doses are 2x or more nonresident. The PP said that DC was giving away "half" to non-residents.

The overall current percentage of resident : nonresident is close to half (not exact - 27,000 non -resident to 29,000 resident ) and the past few days do not show that resident doses have doubled. They are below many days/weeks in January and February.

I would like to see what you are asserting happen, but a few days of data is not a pattern and there is a LOT of ground to make up. What is the policy change?

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By the way, I think you are using doubled in an interesting way. The resident doses have actually lessened in the past week according to the graph, and the non-resident as well. Still, from the total shots given a significant amount went out of state. For example. on Feb 23--~ 2,000 to DC residents, ~ 900 to out of state. Still close to half! Let's wait to see an actual policy change before making claims.

The vaccines DC is allotted by the CDC is based upon resident population. Vaccinations are allotted to neighboring states for their populations. In very particular circumstances it may make sense for DC to vaccinate out of state workers (re-opening schools), but we need to scrap our plan of doing the CDC's work for them by offering vaccine to large groups of MD and VA "essential workers". The CDC is already offering them vaccine and they are covered by their states phased plans. It's pretty simple math.

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Anonymous wrote:By the way, I think you are using doubled in an interesting way. The resident doses have actually lessened in the past week according to the graph, and the non-resident as well. Still, from the total shots given a significant amount went out of state. For example. on Feb 23--~ 2,000 to DC residents, ~ 900 to out of state. Still close to half! Let's wait to see an actual policy change before making claims.

The vaccines DC is allotted by the CDC is based upon resident population. Vaccinations are allotted to neighboring states for their populations. In very particular circumstances it may make sense for DC to vaccinate out of state workers (re-opening schools), but we need to scrap our plan of doing the CDC's work for them by offering vaccine to large groups of MD and VA "essential workers". The CDC is already offering them vaccine and they are covered by their states phased plans. It's pretty simple math.

My bad. I see what I did . "close to 1/3 went out of state". Still, last week was pretty dismal for residents over all.

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Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

The amount of vaccine given out via the portal has more than doubled in recent weeks.

This graph does not show a rise in resident doses.

Sure it does. Resident doses are 2x or more nonresident. The PP said that DC was giving away "half" to non-residents.

Try again. The numbers don't match your assertions (though the bars on the graphs look like they do.

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Anonymous wrote:It's because Ward 1's vaccination rate for older people is higher than Ward 5, 7, and 8's. They're prioritizing vaccines to the places where the fewest people have been vaccinated.

And arguably, the folks who already had covid are probably at lower risk of getting or spreading it again, so overall case count (especially since some of those cases were many months ago) may not be the best metric.

Finally, places like Mary's Center, Unity, La Clinica del Pueblo, and Bread for the City, all of which serve many low-income residents of CH, have their own allocation of vaccines and are contacting their patients directly, so they don't have to go through the city portal unless they want to.

Shouldn’t the goal to be to prioritize the most vulnerable? Seniors with additional health factors living in a neighborhood that has markedly more cases than any other neighborhood are the most vulnerable.