Ward 3 has secret COVID vaccine sites for Ward 3 Only! Not on the DC register!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

Please stop spreading lies. DC did request vaccines at the very beginning to cover non-residents:

The District’s geographic location between Maryland and Virginia lends itself to significant population
movement between all three jurisdictions. These individuals who reside outside of the District are part of
the necessary workforce and critical infrastructure that keeps the District functioning. DC’s COVID-19
Vaccination Draft Plan has included population vaccination estimates of those who reside in another state
but work in the District as healthcare workers and critical infrastructure personnel. Therefore, the
District’s initial and subsequent federal COVID-19 vaccine allotment must be based on the District’s
workforce population and not only the District residency population.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/DC-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

Please stop spreading lies. DC did request vaccines at the very beginning to cover non-residents:

The District’s geographic location between Maryland and Virginia lends itself to significant population
movement between all three jurisdictions. These individuals who reside outside of the District are part of
the necessary workforce and critical infrastructure that keeps the District functioning. DC’s COVID-19
Vaccination Draft Plan has included population vaccination estimates of those who reside in another state
but work in the District as healthcare workers and critical infrastructure personnel. Therefore, the
District’s initial and subsequent federal COVID-19 vaccine allotment must be based on the District’s
workforce population and not only the District residency population.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/DC-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

You know that the draft plan which was in work since may was never implemented right?

Have you even read it? It is laughable.

It has been quoted quite a bit in the COVID threats because it is such a slap together job in an attempt to cover a huge planning deficiency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

Please stop spreading lies. DC did request vaccines at the very beginning to cover non-residents:

The District’s geographic location between Maryland and Virginia lends itself to significant population
movement between all three jurisdictions. These individuals who reside outside of the District are part of
the necessary workforce and critical infrastructure that keeps the District functioning. DC’s COVID-19
Vaccination Draft Plan has included population vaccination estimates of those who reside in another state
but work in the District as healthcare workers and critical infrastructure personnel. Therefore, the
District’s initial and subsequent federal COVID-19 vaccine allotment must be based on the District’s
workforce population and not only the District residency population.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/DC-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Well gee, I do see the word "draft". I also don't see how much they asked for, and what they received before they started giving it away? Feel free to supply those numbers. Where's the ledger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

How well could we be doing with only 11,000 doses a week? And they did formally request shots for non-resident workers. The feds just didn't send them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) Ward 8 residents are fearful of vaccines. The health system in the US has never recovered from Tuskeegee.

2) DC does not have a "shortage" of vaccines relative to its ability to distribute them. According to the NYT, only 2/3 of it's available vaccines have been administered.

D.C. does have a shortage of vaccines, because it's holding some in reserve as second doses for people who got the first doses -- and even if it weren't, 1/3 of the available vaccines wouldn't meet the current demand.

Federal government, both Biden and previously Trump have told local governments NOT to hold doses in reserve for the second shots as the Federal government is accounting for second doses and holding doses back simply slows the process down. This is old news.

DC is close to the national average of vaccines given - 65 percent vs the national average of 69 percent. I don't know if DC is withholding second doses, but with a mere 10K doses per week, there isn't a lot of wiggle room as compared with states that have hundreds of thousands of doses not given. I know Anne Arundal county had to cancel second dose appointments due to lack of vaccine, which is terrible.

DC has a tiny infrastructure and strong, direct relationships with the Feds (whom but for piss-poor planning they could have asked formally for more vaccines at the onset for non-resident workers), and ONLY 700,000 residents. DC should be WELL AHEAD of the national average.

How well could we be doing with only 11,000 doses a week? And they did formally request shots for non-resident workers. The feds just didn't send them.

Aw, pumpkin! Then maybe they need to re consider giving shots to non resident workers, and vaccinate DCs population. Sounds like their expectations and informal agreements on which they based the "plan" weren't met.

[Anonymous]

How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

It's good policy to vaccinate DC workers. Fixed that for you. Out of state workers have their own states where they can get vaccinated (whose 16,000 vaccine donation has been used up + was completely insufficient for an on-going DC administered "non-resident" vax program)

[Anonymous]

DC resident workers. ^ Extra fixed it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

It's good policy to vaccinate DC workers. Fixed that for you. Out of state workers have their own states where they can get vaccinated (whose 16,000 vaccine donation has been used up + was completely insufficient for an on-going DC administered "non-resident" vax program)

If the workers work in D.C. and live somewhere else, it's good policy FOR D.C. RESIDENTS to have the workers vaccinated, since they're spending at least eight hours a day in D.C. interacting with D.C. residents. I don't want to get covid from someone in the grocery store just because they live in Maryland (or to have my neighbor's kid get it from their daycare center just because the employees there live in Virginia, or whatever).

If you're talking about out-of-state workers who are working from home, staying in their states, and only coming to D.C. to get vaccinated, fine, that's one thing, but how many people could possibly fit that description?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

It's good policy to vaccinate DC workers. Fixed that for you. Out of state workers have their own states where they can get vaccinated (whose 16,000 vaccine donation has been used up + was completely insufficient for an on-going DC administered "non-resident" vax program)

If the workers work in D.C. and live somewhere else, it's good policy FOR D.C. RESIDENTS to have the workers vaccinated, since they're spending at least eight hours a day in D.C. interacting with D.C. residents. I don't want to get covid from someone in the grocery store just because they live in Maryland (or to have my neighbor's kid get it from their daycare center just because the employees there live in Virginia, or whatever).

If you're talking about out-of-state workers who are working from home, staying in their states, and only coming to D.C. to get vaccinated, fine, that's one thing, but how many people could possibly fit that description?

Thousands...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

It's good policy to vaccinate DC workers. Fixed that for you. Out of state workers have their own states where they can get vaccinated (whose 16,000 vaccine donation has been used up + was completely insufficient for an on-going DC administered "non-resident" vax program)

If the workers work in D.C. and live somewhere else, it's good policy FOR D.C. RESIDENTS to have the workers vaccinated, since they're spending at least eight hours a day in D.C. interacting with D.C. residents. I don't want to get covid from someone in the grocery store just because they live in Maryland (or to have my neighbor's kid get it from their daycare center just because the employees there live in Virginia, or whatever).

If you're talking about out-of-state workers who are working from home, staying in their states, and only coming to D.C. to get vaccinated, fine, that's one thing, but how many people could possibly fit that description?

Thousands...

According to what? Please show us some evidence that thousands of people who ordinarily work in D.C. but are working from home due to the pandemic have gone into D.C. to get vaccinated from D.C.'s supply (as opposed to from, say, federal government allocations to agencies, which are separate).

[Anonymous]

Has anybody determined why there is only maybe one vaccination site in Ward 3? Doesn't that sound weird on the face of it. And I am not even a Ward 3 resident. Don't they have seniors who can't drive that might want to walk to get a vaccine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many times must you be told that DC received 16000 shots to address some of the deficit? The workforce is part of the population in every single state. It is good science to vaccinate essential workers ahead of everyone else. Sorry. Feel free to get a job at giant or a daycare if it bothers you this much.

It's good policy to vaccinate DC workers. Fixed that for you. Out of state workers have their own states where they can get vaccinated (whose 16,000 vaccine donation has been used up + was completely insufficient for an on-going DC administered "non-resident" vax program)

If the workers work in D.C. and live somewhere else, it's good policy FOR D.C. RESIDENTS to have the workers vaccinated, since they're spending at least eight hours a day in D.C. interacting with D.C. residents. I don't want to get covid from someone in the grocery store just because they live in Maryland (or to have my neighbor's kid get it from their daycare center just because the employees there live in Virginia, or whatever).

If you're talking about out-of-state workers who are working from home, staying in their states, and only coming to D.C. to get vaccinated, fine, that's one thing, but how many people could possibly fit that description?

Thousands...

According to what? Please show us some evidence that thousands of people who ordinarily work in D.C. but are working from home due to the pandemic have gone into D.C. to get vaccinated from D.C.'s supply (as opposed to from, say, federal government allocations to agencies, which are separate).

Do you have evidence the city is screening for this, or asking for screening? Because it would be pretty easy for people to slip through or to say, well once Im vaccinated Ill be able to return to in person work. I know a couple of private school teachers working from home, not from DC, who got vaccinated in DC this month. Perhaps they plan to return, but they are certainly in a WFH status right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anybody determined why there is only maybe one vaccination site in Ward 3? Doesn't that sound weird on the face of it. And I am not even a Ward 3 resident. Don't they have seniors who can't drive that might want to walk to get a vaccine?

Look, I am in Ward 5 and none of the sites are walking distance for me, and I would have to take at least one bus to use public transportation. Transportation for seniors is a challenge all over the city. I don't know how many sites are actually in Ward 3, but Ward 3 seniors are doing a GREAT job of getting vaccinated and are far outstripping the citywide average. So your concern is not warranted.