Covid Vaccine DC- "Separate, but Equal"??

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been told Howard Hospital is doing walk in vaccinations, anyone on the street. Does anyone have any info on that?

I'd heard they're doing it for otherwise eligible people (i.e. over 65s) Not just anyone.

Then that means that someone is taking the time to screen records for eligibility. This whole thing is such a waste. Go first to assisted living and apartment buildings full of the elderly, along with community health centers in the underserved neighborhoods. Put a sign up list for everyone else who lives alone (or go out with Meals on Wheels). Hospitals can use part of their allotment to vaccinate anyone else who comes through their clinics. No need to reach out to past patients.

That's the part I don't understand. Why you HAVE to have been a patient in the past two years. I'd love to get mine at a hospital, but (sadly? happily?) haven't sought medical care at one recently. I find the whole 2 year gatekeeping thing weird, and it must be about insurance + admin costs. I'd be happy to supply my insurance. I wish they would just ask for what they obviously crave.

Presumably if you haven’t had to go to hospital in the past two years, you are comparatively healthy and shouldn’t be in these early waves.

Presumably. But this is going to continue forever (they haven't said otherwise). I have been to the doctor in the last two years. Because my doctor is not at one of these hospitals, am I more healthy? It's an insurance thing. If you have insurance on file, in DC you get a bump in getting this 'free shot'.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

are the hospitals using it for patients or staff?

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The way this system is designed it inevitably diminishes the opportunities for poor people and POC, even though these are the communities hardest hit by the virus.

I think it portends the future. This is how it will be when water or food is scarce or when the planet is about to destruct and the only people who will survive are the ones who make it onto the few rocket flights. And, if the decision makers were to try to be more equitable by affirmatively prioritizing poor people and POC, many people will talk about “reverse racism” and how unfair it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

are the hospitals using it for patients or staff?

Both

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

The "special dispensations" are for teachers, health care workers, police officers, firefighters, nursing homes, and day care workers, and I suspect that group in total adds up to more than half of the 70 percent that isn't going through the central system. I also suspect very few people actually object to that. So then it's 30 percent through the central system and about 35 percent through hospitals, which can triage their own patient lists to make sure the higher-risk people get them first, and about 35 percent to front-line workers who are already prioritized over the general public.

Doesn't seem like such a terrible system.

The real problem, again, is that we don't have more vaccine supply in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

The "special dispensations" are for teachers, health care workers, police officers, firefighters, nursing homes, and day care workers, and I suspect that group in total adds up to more than half of the 70 percent that isn't going through the central system. I also suspect very few people actually object to that. So then it's 30 percent through the central system and about 35 percent through hospitals, which can triage their own patient lists to make sure the higher-risk people get them first, and about 35 percent to front-line workers who are already prioritized over the general public.

Doesn't seem like such a terrible system.

The real problem, again, is that we don't have more vaccine supply in the first place.

Has DC published the agreements they have made with MD/VA to vaccinate their residents who fall in the categories above? Ie, how is that reflected in the amount of vaccine DC requests/gets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Todays Post said DC is distributing 30% of the vaccine it receives through the central system. Everything else is going through these hospitals and special dispensations. No wonder people who call/use the website cant get an appointment.

are the hospitals using it for patients or staff?

Frankly, they are using it for people with insurance on file. I have see nothing about 'triaging' as this continues on. if you are on the hospital's list for being seen for any reason in the past 2 years (some 3) you may get a call. If you are not on the list, obviously you won't.