Leaving DC to get vaccinated

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Salisbury, MD. They checked that I was who I said I was and that I had an appointment. Nothing else.

+1

If you are interested in booking you can go to this site. They accept everyone now because this mass vax site is never full. They just want to get shots in arms. You can see full day schedules available.

https://massvax.maryland.gov/

Baltimore. Thanks for nothing Mayor Bowser.

The problem is the federal govt and vaccine dose allocation.

OK, Muriel.

[Anonymous]

Do you have to show ID in Salisbury?

[Anonymous]

This is pretty funny after reading howls of outrage when MD and VA residents received doses in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC had appointments at a couple of CVS stores all day today.

I was able to schedule an appointment for someone today at Six Flags for tomorrow.

CVS appointments become available at midnight every night.
I just scheduled two appointments for Sunday in Rockville.

Since when is SIx Flags or Rockvilee in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty funny after reading howls of outrage when MD and VA residents received doses in DC.

What choice do we have? Because so many doses meant for DC residents continue to go to Feds from MD and VA, we can't get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have to show ID in Salisbury?

Yes, they still need to check your identity. Here's the news about Salisbury:

https://www.wboc.com/story/43546473/immediate-appointments-available-at-covid19-mass-vaccination-clinic-in-salisbury?fbclid=IwAR3xBNVHWg7rPt82j3V5zbmi9k-FBLmjOuXpXizibRv1ZltLOUQme6nL2Ws

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is pretty funny after reading howls of outrage when MD and VA residents received doses in DC.

What choice do we have? Because so many doses meant for DC residents continue to go to Feds from MD and VA, we can't get vaccinated.

+1. DC is dead last in terms of vaccinating its residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty funny after reading howls of outrage when MD and VA residents received doses in DC.

What choice do we have? Because so many doses meant for DC residents continue to go to Feds from MD and VA, we can't get vaccinated.

+1. DC is dead last in terms of vaccinating its residents.

This. Also, irony of ironies: my spouse works in Maryland, has to be in person sometimes, is not eligible for vaccine in DC or MD. But retired doctors living in Bethesda can get vaccinated at the pharmacy a block from our house because they are still associated with a DC hospital. I just, I can’t.

[Anonymous]

NJ.
Bc DC rollout for people who work there (and have been working in person since March 2020) was too slow.

In addition to their state run sites, all 4 major pharmacy chains carry it. You can’t find the same level of efficiency even in Md.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Salisbury, MD. They checked that I was who I said I was and that I had an appointment. Nothing else.

+1

If you are interested in booking you can go to this site. They accept everyone now because this mass vax site is never full. They just want to get shots in arms. You can see full day schedules available.

https://massvax.maryland.gov/

Baltimore. Thanks for nothing Mayor Bowser.

The problem is the federal govt and vaccine dose allocation.

The majority of my Ward 3 neighbors have received the vax outside of DC in NC, MD, Alexandria, and NJ. Only one person we know was successful through the DC preregistration. All have waited their turn and were eligible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MD resident here who is glad to have DC residents eligible by MD criteria coming to get vaccinated here. But please be very careful when you choose your location so that you are not worsening inequity by taking shots away from people in areas with low vaccination rates. So sure, go to the mass vax sites but maybe not to pharmacies in lower-income areas where people really need the convenience of those nearby locations, especially if they don’t have cars or have complicated work hours.

Did you read any of these posts? The slots are not being filled.

PP here. Of course I read the posts. And I wasn’t talking about the mass vax site in Salisbury, which genuinely does seem to have slots going unfilled. A DC person who is eligible by *MD* criteria should take those. But I also see internet-savvy DC residents talking about snagging slots at a CVS or Walgreens in MoCo and PG county in the middle of the night. The fact that a slot is open briefly at 3 am doesn’t mean that there’s not someone in that community who wouldn’t take it if it were still available the next day. I live in a part of MoCo that is mostly minority with a large working class population. I don’t think NW DC residents should get the few pharmacy slots available in my neighborhood just because they are good with a computer and they don’t feel like driving very far. (Same is true for MD residents. Even *I* wouldn’t take a pharmacy slot in my own neighborhood.) Slots in the MD suburbs are still hard to come by. It was only yesterday that the state opened up eligibility to under 60s with serious health issues. Pay attention to geography, socioeconomics, and demand before you come out here. That’s all I’m saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MD resident here who is glad to have DC residents eligible by MD criteria coming to get vaccinated here. But please be very careful when you choose your location so that you are not worsening inequity by taking shots away from people in areas with low vaccination rates. So sure, go to the mass vax sites but maybe not to pharmacies in lower-income areas where people really need the convenience of those nearby locations, especially if they don’t have cars or have complicated work hours.

Did you read any of these posts? The slots are not being filled.

+1 if anything you are helping the lower income people because you are going driving someplace where the slots are not being filled. Then the lower income dc people will have more options local to them or on a bus route.

[Anonymous]

The unfairness of this really gets me. (FWIW, I have not been vaccinated and am waiting my turn in my jurisdiction.) This system prioritizes people who are tech savvy, have transportation and the flexibility to drive long distances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The unfairness of this really gets me. (FWIW, I have not been vaccinated and am waiting my turn in my jurisdiction.) This system prioritizes people who are tech savvy, have transportation and the flexibility to drive long distances.

PP again, I know it's the dose allocation that's at fault here. It's just a bad system. I'm happy for everyone who is getting their vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Go to the lobby of children’s hospital in the evenings....they walk around with extra shots at the end of each day.