DC is dead last in percentage of residents vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why would we need mass sites when we only have 14K shots to give in a whole week? The sites we have could easily handle more patients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why would we need mass sites when we only have 14K shots to give in a whole week? The sites we have could easily handle more patients.

I am hoping that DC will
a) begin to deliver more vaccine to residents by either securing more vaccine or telling MD/VA folks to get vaccinated in their home states
b) launch its streamlined sign up
c) streamline delivery
A mass vaccination site could be in addition to other locales, as in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why would we need mass sites when we only have 14K shots to give in a whole week? The sites we have could easily handle more patients.

I am hoping that DC will
a) begin to deliver more vaccine to residents by either securing more vaccine or telling MD/VA folks to get vaccinated in their home states
b) launch its streamlined sign up
c) streamline delivery
A mass vaccination site could be in addition to other locales, as in MD.

Maryland gives 22,000 shots per day. We don't need a mass site with only 14,000 shots per week (some weeks was only 9,000).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why would we need mass sites when we only have 14K shots to give in a whole week? The sites we have could easily handle more patients.

I am hoping that DC will
a) begin to deliver more vaccine to residents by either securing more vaccine or telling MD/VA folks to get vaccinated in their home states
b) launch its streamlined sign up
c) streamline delivery
A mass vaccination site could be in addition to other locales, as in MD.

Maryland gives 22,000 shots per day. We don't need a mass site with only 14,000 shots per week (some weeks was only 9,000).

How many do they give at a mass site in a day? Just curious. We are 3 months in to vaccinating --so worthwhile for DC to look at how we are delivering vaccine and whether could do more efficiently.

Anyway, as long as DC continues to give half our vaccine stock to out of staters, we will be dead last in residents vaccinated no matter how its delivered.

[Anonymous]

UPDATE below. Well, at least Elissa Silverman feels "devastated". How about putting a stoppage on vaccinating out of state workers????:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-dc-maryland-virginia/2021/02/17/0f80f218-711b-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

"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....

Bowser, Northam and Hogan had asked the federal government last week to take responsibility for vaccinating as many as 30,000 federal workers in the region.“We are hearing from FEMA that that request almost certainly will not be approved,” Rodriguez said. “We have not received anything official in writing.”

“That’s devastating, in a way,” Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) responded.

Ankoor Shah, the city’s vaccine program director, also dashed another of the District’s hopes for getting more doses, saying neighboring states won’t offer more loaned doses to cover the tens of thousands of nonresident workers getting vaccinated in the District. “They nicely declined our multiple requests to pitch in to give vaccines,” Shah said about Maryland and Virginia, which initially provided enough doses to fully vaccinate about 8,000 of their residents who work in the District, but more recently have refused to send more doses amid a shortage across the region. “Actually, they’ve been asking us for vaccines, as well.”

[Anonymous]

For comparison, the national average is 12%, Alaska is at 18%, and even Micronesia is doing better than us, at 8.1%. The percentage of DC residents who are fully vaccinated is equally dismal at 2.5%, which leaves us in last place in this category, too. (Residents vaccinated)

[Anonymous]

If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why have a mass site when there is no vaccine to distribute? There is a huge test site at UDC on S. Dakota that is basically empty. No one goes seems to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

Because DC requested vaccine based on DC population head count, not the workers who come into the city every day. Now they are giving half the vaccine away. No other state or jurisdiction is doing this. Why is the inequity hard for your to understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

Because DC requested vaccine based on DC population head count, not the workers who come into the city every day. Now they are giving half the vaccine away. No other state or jurisdiction is doing this. Why is the inequity hard for your to understand?

DC has requested vaccine based on all the essential workers who work in DC. Every single time the mayor talks about this, she says DC needs more vaccine. We can only get what the feds allocate to us.

It is not half. It looks to be about 40 percent, based on my math, and quite a bit less if you take out the 16000 doses that MD and VA gave us.

Other states ARE dealing with this, even if it might not be to the same extent. I am a DC resident who got a vaccine in VA. My husband is a DC resident who got his vaccine through DoD, also in VA.

Essential employees are part of our public health ecosystem whether you like it or not. I am at far higher risk from a DC grocery store employee than a 65 year old who I pass in the greeting card section at Politics and Prose. I am not a bowser booster, but she's trying to thread the needle with seniors in very different economic brackets, essential employees and at-risk populations with precious few vaccines.

A little googling will show you that other states have the same policy and are facing some of the same challenges:

According to the New York City Health Department’s COVID site, if you fall into any of these categories and you work in New York City, you are eligible for a vaccine there: People ages 65 and older; teachers, school staff, in-person college instructors and child care workers; correction staff; first responders; public transit workers; public-facing grocery store workers; people working and living in group homeless shelters and other group setting

Almost 28% of people who have been vaccinated in New York City don’t live there, The City reported last week.

Seven percent of those who have been vaccinated in the city live in New Jersey, the publication said based on an analysis of data from the city’s COVID-19 vaccine site.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/01/can-i-get-a-covid-vaccine-in-ny-or-pa-if-i-live-in-nj.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

Because DC requested vaccine based on DC population head count, not the workers who come into the city every day. Now they are giving half the vaccine away. No other state or jurisdiction is doing this. Why is the inequity hard for your to understand?

Those workers are essential to DC, they are not essential in MD or VA. They can get their vaccines when they normally qualify in their home state, but there is no reason for their home states to consider them essential when they don't actual serve their home state's population

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

Because DC requested vaccine based on DC population head count, not the workers who come into the city every day. Now they are giving half the vaccine away. No other state or jurisdiction is doing this. Why is the inequity hard for your to understand?

DC has requested vaccine based on all the essential workers who work in DC. Every single time the mayor talks about this, she says DC needs more vaccine. We can only get what the feds allocate to us.

It is not half. It looks to be about 40 percent, based on my math, and quite a bit less if you take out the 16000 doses that MD and VA gave us.

Other states ARE dealing with this, even if it might not be to the same extent. I am a DC resident who got a vaccine in VA. My husband is a DC resident who got his vaccine through DoD, also in VA.

Essential employees are part of our public health ecosystem whether you like it or not. I am at far higher risk from a DC grocery store employee than a 65 year old who I pass in the greeting card section at Politics and Prose. I am not a bowser booster, but she's trying to thread the needle with seniors in very different economic brackets, essential employees and at-risk populations with precious few vaccines.

A little googling will show you that other states have the same policy and are facing some of the same challenges:

According to the New York City Health Department’s COVID site, if you fall into any of these categories and you work in New York City, you are eligible for a vaccine there: People ages 65 and older; teachers, school staff, in-person college instructors and child care workers; correction staff; first responders; public transit workers; public-facing grocery store workers; people working and living in group homeless shelters and other group setting

Almost 28% of people who have been vaccinated in New York City don’t live there, The City reported last week.

Seven percent of those who have been vaccinated in the city live in New Jersey, the publication said based on an analysis of data from the city’s COVID-19 vaccine site.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/01/can-i-get-a-covid-vaccine-in-ny-or-pa-if-i-live-in-nj.html

The number of vaccine allocated to DC is based on DCs population. The Mayor has secured nothing further.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the out-of-state residents are front-line health care workers, cops, firefighters, teachers, or working in D.C. grocery stores, I still don't see why it's bad for us to have them be vaccinated from D.C.'s stock. They're in D.C. all day potentially transmitting covid to D.C. residents.

The feds should vaccinate federal workers, though, certainly. Or D.C. should make clear that feds who don't fall into those categories above will go behind D.C. residents.

The issue isn't their worthiness. The issue is they have or will have stock assigned to them in their own state. Meanwhile, DC keeps expanding the categories of worker vaccination and pulling from from stock directly correlated to DCs resident population - while residents sit in their houses (since March) awaiting vaccination.

As to essential Fed workers which includes post office etc--request appears to be about to be denied. They come into the city too, so either DC makes a consistent decision about sending a message of putting residents first since we are not being allocated stock to vaccinate anyone else and our neighbor states won't "share", or they don't. At least let's be logical.

The point is not solely to put residents first. Essential workers are a critical component of public health. I honestly don't know why that is so difficult for you to understand.

Because DC requested vaccine based on DC population head count, not the workers who come into the city every day. Now they are giving half the vaccine away. No other state or jurisdiction is doing this. Why is the inequity hard for your to understand?

Those workers are essential to DC, they are not essential in MD or VA. They can get their vaccines when they normally qualify in their home state, but there is no reason for their home states to consider them essential when they don't actual serve their home state's population

MDs next phase includes grocery workers. Are you claiming that someone who works for Giant in DC cannot get vaccinated in MD in this phase? I doubt that. If so, the Mayor needs to hash out a deal with MD. That's called "leadership".