DC is dead last in percentage of residents vaccinated.
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Anonymous
If a daycare workers lives in MD or VA but still works with our kid in DC you are not helping anybody in the DC community by denying them a vaccine if they want it. The virus doesn’t care which jurisdiction you live in. |
Anonymous
Medical workers and childcare, teachers etc have already been offered vaccine. We are discussing an ongoing campaign that gives out of state workers equal or even more footing than DC residents. This, when they can also seek vaccine in their own state-MD or VA. |
Anonymous
disagree. if DC is vaccinating 20-something daycare workers from Virginia, but not **much higher risk** 55-65 year old DC residents, that is a massive failure of DC to care for its own. |
Anonymous
It's okay to disagree on priorities, but it's not a "massive failure" to vaccinate workers who provide essential services to DC families. 59 percent of DC's deaths were people 70+, and below that the numbers fall off. We can't cherry pick the most worthy recipients out of broad population groups. Hopefully the high-risk 55 year olds will be able to snag a shot in the next couple of weeks when we move to health conditions, which are both broad and self reported. |
Anonymous
yes, it is a massive failure to prioritize lower-risk over higher risk people. I’m not sure why this is even a question. |
Anonymous
| We are resigned to the fact that the vaccine will never reach our family. We are young and healthy and might as well develop our immunity the old fashioned way. Right? |
Anonymous
Then you have an extremely poor understanding of the purpose of a vaccination campaign. It's not just to vaccinate all people over 55; it is also to reduce community spread and ensure that our society continues to function. As pointed out elsewhere, the DC sanitation workers are young, strong and work outside, but we are deeply f-ed if they all fall sick. |
Anonymous
Show me where DC has engaged in that rationale. Because what I actually see reported is that interest groups are agitating to get added based on political power and not actual risk assessment. We’re a year into the pandemic, and public services like sanitation are running just fine. There have been no breakdowns in essential services due to outbreaks. So that’s a canard. But people 55+ are still dying every day, whereas 40 and under have died in tiny, tiny numbers. It’s nonsensical to claim we are protecting the DC population by vaccinating 20-something daycare workers and overweight 30 year olds. |
Anonymous
As I stated upthread - we can't cherry pick among populations. Do you know why DC did 65+ instead of 75+? Because the median age for death in Ward 8 is 68, while it is 80-something in Ward 2. They wanted to catch the high risk 68-year old, EVEN THOUGH it meant that perfectly healthy white 66-year olds in AU Park were going to snag a vaccine, too. Trying to get it perfectly is the enemy of trying to get it done quickly and efficiently. PS moving to comorbities will make a huge difference in the percentage of DC residents vaxxed since there are 160,000 eligible in this group, all DC residents. For comparison, 20,000 teachers and staff. |
Anonymous
Agree to not cherry picking. Also understand the next group of high risk medical conditions includes younger people who may - sadly-have lesser life spans so 16-65 is fine by me. However, the issue is not DC triaging, its DC's offering a sizable portion of DCs vaccine allotted to residents to non-residents. Going forward, unless neighboring states donate more vaccine (which they are politely declining to do) or more is secured from the Feds (they are saying "no" as well), vaccinate triaged DC residents (grocery workers, sanitation workers etc.) and ask those that are residents of MD and VA to get vaccinated in their home states - which are also following phased CDC guidelines. Is it wokeness that caused DC to think it could simply vaccinate everyone in the DMV when they have their own states? I don't understand the thinking/planning behind it-truly. |
Anonymous
yes, we can and ARE “cherry picking” among populations, and it’s not being done on the basis of actual risk. Not sure why this is hard for you to understand. Look at the DC stats. The risk of death tracks age. DC has given up trying to be good, much less perfect. |
Anonymous
| If you look at MD and VA, half of their vaccine has not gone out of state, as they move through the same staged triaging. There is a dissonance here that DC needs to address. Withdraw from the "informal DMV vaccinate each other's worker agreement", and everyone gets vaccinated in their state of residence. Is there any more simple way to do this? |
Anonymous
| And let's stop holding AA outreach church and hospital clinics that go to MD residents. Hold one in Ward 8 for Ward 8 families, by all means. Ward 8--NOT MD. |
Anonymous
We are not vaccinating "everyone in the DMV"!!! Why do you have to resort to hyperbole if you have an actual point? If you teach or nurse or clean teeth or sell groceries in DC, you get a shot in DC. If you do those things in Virginia, you get a Virginia shot. Why is that hard to understand? Are people in Fairfax flipping out because their teachers live in cheaper Maryland but got a VA shot? No, they are happy their teachers are getting vaccinated and no longer have an excuse not to teach. |
Anonymous
I guess you have not looked at DCs phased plan *sigh*. Basically, every category of worker except unemployed is covered-whether they are a resident or out of state! Do you know who is last on the list? "DC residents who do not fall in the category above". The fact that you call something factual "hyperbole" shows how alarming DC's approach is, so thanks for confirming that. |