Credit where credit is due: DC has improved Resident Vaccine Coverage

[Anonymous]

Why no mass vax sites here? DC Armory anyone?

[Anonymous]

Why isn’t DC making more people eligible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn’t DC making more people eligible?

There still are backlogged with pre-existing conditions people. More jobs open up soon though.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Go back and re-register with the health department. I received a phone call within 24-hours. I was given options to several locations with which vaccine to choose from. I share your demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why no mass vax sites here? DC Armory anyone?

There is a mass vac site. It is in the Entertainment Arena at the old St Eze complex off MLK Avenue. People from all racial and economic demographics were there last week.

[Anonymous]

More bad press for DC.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-dc-failing-vaccination-game/618466/?fbclid=IwAR1FqbyKnIBPYv7pdp1HV35LQKJYyTLhTTBcbL4_PSnPRe48BDvkHwaSGos

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Anonymous wrote:More bad press for DC.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-dc-failing-vaccination-game/618466/?fbclid=IwAR1FqbyKnIBPYv7pdp1HV35LQKJYyTLhTTBcbL4_PSnPRe48BDvkHwaSGos

Hardly bad press! This is GREAT press for DC! Thanks for fposting!

HHS decided early on that vaccine doses would be distributed to states and territories based on population. For most jurisdictions, that made sense. For D.C., it made no sense at all. That’s because D.C. must vaccinate a huge number of people who live in other states.

Three-quarters of all the people who work in D.C. live in Maryland or Virginia, mostly because housing in the District is too expensive. The capital’s so-called daytime population, which includes people who come into the city every day to work, is nearly double the nighttime population of about 700,000. Many of these people are essential workers who can’t work from home and therefore must be vaccinated to do their jobs—hospital workers, police officers, firefighters, teachers, grocery workers.
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Blame HHS for the fact that the District has inoculated so few of its residents; the department is not giving the District enough vaccine doses. Blame Congress for resisting D.C.’s demands for statehood, which would give the capital more clout in such situations. As for D.C.’s poor efficiency record at delivering the few doses in its possession, the city government’s performance may not be quite as bad as it looks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why no mass vax sites here? DC Armory anyone?

There is a mass vac site. It is in the Entertainment Arena at the old St Eze complex off MLK Avenue. People from all racial and economic demographics were there last week.

Then why is it taking so long to vaccinate 700K people when other places have done over a million already?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why no mass vax sites here? DC Armory anyone?

There is a mass vac site. It is in the Entertainment Arena at the old St Eze complex off MLK Avenue. People from all racial and economic demographics were there last week.

Then why is it taking so long to vaccinate 700K people when other places have done over a million already?

Because shots are distributed by population; if DC got 200,000 doses a week like a bigger state, it would be super easy to get there. But we got 9K one week, and had to vaccinate all the teachers and healthcare providers who live out of state out of that. See the Atlantic article upthread.

[Anonymous]

They vaccinated everyone else in the DMV area.

At some point there is noone left except DC residents.

[Anonymous]

Is DC doing about as good as it can considering how much vaccine we've been given? Yes.

Did DC vaccinate far too many non-residents at the start of the process? Yes. Those people should have and could have been vaccinated in their home states. They had the doses to spare. DC didn't.

Was the sign-up process at the beginning a complete fiasco considering how long the city had to prepare? Very much yes. This is entirely on the DC government.

Is the sign-up process better now? Yes, but it's not doing a great job getting more priority residents vaccinated. The priority zip code thing needs to be ditched for something more focused, because gentrified neighborhoods in the priority zip codes are getting vaccinated at a much higher rate than non-gentrified neighborhoods. DC needs to do it by neighborhood, not zip code. DC officials have been told this numerous times and won't change it.

All of these things can be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is DC doing about as good as it can considering how much vaccine we've been given? Yes.

Did DC vaccinate far too many non-residents at the start of the process? Yes. Those people should have and could have been vaccinated in their home states. They had the doses to spare. DC didn't.

Was the sign-up process at the beginning a complete fiasco considering how long the city had to prepare? Very much yes. This is entirely on the DC government.

Is the sign-up process better now? Yes, but it's not doing a great job getting more priority residents vaccinated. The priority zip code thing needs to be ditched for something more focused, because gentrified neighborhoods in the priority zip codes are getting vaccinated at a much higher rate than non-gentrified neighborhoods. DC needs to do it by neighborhood, not zip code. DC officials have been told this numerous times and won't change it.

All of these things can be true.

WRT to non-residents, I really don't see how they could possibly have done it any differently. There was absolutely no way to push healthcare workers, the absolute first wave, to get vaccinated in their home states. I mean, really, were they going to tell the nurses to pull out their IDs and turn 80 percent of them away? Of course not. It would have been a complete fiasco and everyone would be screaming about how inefficient and petty the District is, refusing to vaccinate our frontline healthcare workers. And there are 85,000 healthcare workers in DC! And 20,000 teachers! They probably could have pushed back on the 3,000 grocery store people, but those folks are actually much more likely to live in DC.

I agree with the rest of your points.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is DC doing about as good as it can considering how much vaccine we've been given? Yes.

Did DC vaccinate far too many non-residents at the start of the process? Yes. Those people should have and could have been vaccinated in their home states. They had the doses to spare. DC didn't.

Was the sign-up process at the beginning a complete fiasco considering how long the city had to prepare? Very much yes. This is entirely on the DC government.

Is the sign-up process better now? Yes, but it's not doing a great job getting more priority residents vaccinated. The priority zip code thing needs to be ditched for something more focused, because gentrified neighborhoods in the priority zip codes are getting vaccinated at a much higher rate than non-gentrified neighborhoods. DC needs to do it by neighborhood, not zip code. DC officials have been told this numerous times and won't change it.

All of these things can be true.

WRT to non-residents, I really don't see how they could possibly have done it any differently. There was absolutely no way to push healthcare workers, the absolute first wave, to get vaccinated in their home states. I mean, really, were they going to tell the nurses to pull out their IDs and turn 80 percent of them away? Of course not. It would have been a complete fiasco and everyone would be screaming about how inefficient and petty the District is, refusing to vaccinate our frontline healthcare workers. And there are 85,000 healthcare workers in DC! And 20,000 teachers! They probably could have pushed back on the 3,000 grocery store people, but those folks are actually much more likely to live in DC.

I agree with the rest of your points.

Weren't MD and VA also prioritizing healthcare workers and teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is DC doing about as good as it can considering how much vaccine we've been given? Yes.

Did DC vaccinate far too many non-residents at the start of the process? Yes. Those people should have and could have been vaccinated in their home states. They had the doses to spare. DC didn't.

Was the sign-up process at the beginning a complete fiasco considering how long the city had to prepare? Very much yes. This is entirely on the DC government.

Is the sign-up process better now? Yes, but it's not doing a great job getting more priority residents vaccinated. The priority zip code thing needs to be ditched for something more focused, because gentrified neighborhoods in the priority zip codes are getting vaccinated at a much higher rate than non-gentrified neighborhoods. DC needs to do it by neighborhood, not zip code. DC officials have been told this numerous times and won't change it.

All of these things can be true.

WRT to non-residents, I really don't see how they could possibly have done it any differently. There was absolutely no way to push healthcare workers, the absolute first wave, to get vaccinated in their home states. I mean, really, were they going to tell the nurses to pull out their IDs and turn 80 percent of them away? Of course not. It would have been a complete fiasco and everyone would be screaming about how inefficient and petty the District is, refusing to vaccinate our frontline healthcare workers. And there are 85,000 healthcare workers in DC! And 20,000 teachers! They probably could have pushed back on the 3,000 grocery store people, but those folks are actually much more likely to live in DC.

I agree with the rest of your points.

Weren't MD and VA also prioritizing healthcare workers and teachers?

But it makes sense for healthcare workers to get the shots where they work.

That's why DC should have been allocated more shots.

I agree with the Atlantic. Blame Congress. Blame anyone fighting fair representation by fighting statehood.

[Anonymous]

DC did not improve. Residents just recognized they had to take things into their own hands and go to other jurisdictions who know wtf they’re doing, even if that makes Elissa Silverman throw a little fit over it.