Equity in vaccine distribution
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Anonymous
...still waiting.... |
Anonymous
The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined. "DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014): Ward 1 9,441 Ward 2 11,058 Ward 3 17,581 Ward 4 16,771 Ward 5 15,204 Ward 6 13,848 Ward 7 14,200 Ward 8. 9,589 Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. " |
Anonymous
Are you still waiting, pp? |
Anonymous
Then there should be no problem giving them first access, since according to you they don’t want it. There will be plenty left for you. |
Anonymous
"They" have first access on a sizable number of days of the week. What's your issue? I notice DC is slipping down in the vaccine distribution efficiency rankings...wonder if it's because we are tying ourselves in to pretzels over this kind of stuff. How about first come first serve, drive through or walkup at RFK? We have 700,000 people. Should be able to get it done for ALL who want a vaccine faster than we are, no? From the Post commenting on W Virginia's success, where they "kept it stupid": https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/states-vaccine-rollout/2021/02/03/eae671a0-656f-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html “People think we’re the poorest or most backward or whatever it may be,” Justice said in an interview. “But West Virginia has become the diamond in the rough.” The state’s record has won it accolades from public health professionals as well as notice from the Biden administration. Just 90 minutes after the new president was sworn in last month, Justice, a Republican, said he had a call from the administration’s new coronavirus coordinator, Jeff Zients, inquiring whether West Virginia’s success might offer lessons outside the Mountain State. Tinglong Dai, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s business and nursing schools, said it certainly does. In many states, Dai said, governors have delegated the vaccination process to a web of underfunded county health departments, along with hospitals, pharmacies, HMOs and doctor’s offices. Each has devised its own sign-up system and made its own rules for who can get vaccinated and when. West Virginia has sought to avoid that — where possible — by creating a uniform statewide process. |
Anonymous
Just doing some math to respond to this person. Was this you?
Ward 3 doesn't have TWICE as many elderly as ANY other ward, much less EVERY other ward. Ward 3 has 16 percent of the elderly population and yet has received 26 percent of the vaccines. So STFU, WARD 3. |
Anonymous
| Most of the seniors in Ward 4 and Ward 5 are Black or Latinx too. |
Anonymous
Not staying up on the obesity research, are you? |
Anonymous
Really, I haven't seen those studies, only pronouncements that it MUST be true. |
Anonymous
We're not going to do the research for you. |
Anonymous
Youre crudity doesnt change that ward 3 has twice as many elderly as ward 8. By-eee! |
Anonymous
I thought you might be a bored high schooler, now I know it. Can't add or spell. |
Anonymous
Condescending as f$&@ but I guess that’s what this leads to. The idea of “acknowledging your privilege” will just leave to more and more reinforcement of this kind of superiority complex of “self sacrifice” and we are now on our way to teaching white kids to adopt this mentality of superior benevolence And pitying toward their “poor disadvantaged” friends of other races. Remind me again how this “anti”racism combats views of white supremacy rather than reinforces it? |
Anonymous
Where is the data for people over 75? |
Anonymous
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So I understand that POC overall have had worse outcomes with COVID. But have there been any studies showing that race alone is a contributing factor? Or is it that POC are more likely to live in crowded/substandard conditions, poorer health overall and less access to healthcare? In other words, is there any reason to believe that an AA person of similar age, health, and socioeconomic status to their white neighbor is still more predisposed to a worse outcome?
Not trying to start a controversy, just wondering if researchers have dug into this. We know that different races have different outcomes with sickle cell anemia, for instance. |