National Capital region lagging behind rest of MD vaccinations

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, the National Capital Region (which includes Montgomery County) is lagging significantly behind the rest of Maryland for vaccinations (as of 1/2/2021). It’s important for our elected officials to figure out what’s going on and help turn this around even if they are not directly to blame.

https://moderatelymoco.com/national-capital-region-lagging-significantly-behind-rest-of-maryland-for-vaccinations-1-2-2021-includes-moco/

[Anonymous]

Probably trying to figure out how to get "equity" involved

[Anonymous]

People at highest risk are being vaccinated first.

What’s the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People at highest risk are being vaccinated first.

What’s the problem?

It's hard to tell from those graphs, but if a lot of "high risk" people live in areas outside of MoCo, then this would be why they have a higher rate of vaccinations.

One of the groups that's considered "high risk" is "obese". Do the areas with a higher % of vaccination rates have an outsized share of obese people?

[Anonymous]

The problem is that they are only doing tier 1A (healthcare workers) at this time and this region which has a very high population has not administered similar doses to the other areas (such as Baltimore). Montgomery, PG, etc seem much slower and it is not due to a lack of healthcare workers in the area. They are not administering to obese people yet.
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/#Vaccine

[Anonymous]

They have done a lot of MoCo people— but less per capita. Seems like this is just a post to drive traffic to a mediocre blog.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know the breakdown by hospital and nursing home? That's where most of the doses are going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have done a lot of MoCo people— but less per capita. Seems like this is just a post to drive traffic to a mediocre blog.

Regardless, there is an underlying question that would be interesting to answer: why hasn't Montgomery County been allocated more COVID doses? Surely we have a large number of frontline health care workers.

[Anonymous]

Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

Don't you think it would make sense to allocate fewer doses to western MD given it has a much smaller population?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

Don't you think it would make sense to allocate fewer doses to western MD given it has a much smaller population?

Have they gotten the same number of doses as the National Capital Region?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. Percentages are hard, right?

If you have a smaller population, you’ll get to a higher percentage faster. Let’s take a look at a couple of metrics. First, the raw number of vaccinations given:

Baltimore Metro Area: 35,318 or 1.28%

Eastern Shore: 6,863 or 1.5%

National Capital Region: 13,879 or 0.58%

Southern Maryland: 2.737 or 1.32%

Western Maryland: 2,497 or 0.99%

So the National Capital Region ranks 2nd in raw number of vaccinations given, but last in percentage of its population vaccinated. How could that be?!

Well, where do you think Maryland’s population is concentrated? Let’s look at the National Capital Region. It comprises:

Charles: 163,000 people
Frederick: 260,000 people
MoCo: 1 million ppl
PG: 909,000

That’s 2.3 million total, or just over 1/3rd of Maryland’s population.

Don’t you think it might take a little longer to climb up, percentage-wise, when you’re talking about a 2.3 million-person region than, say, Western Maryland, which has 250,000 people?

Don't you think it would make sense to allocate fewer doses to western MD given it has a much smaller population?

Western MD has the highest Covid infection rates currently.

[Anonymous]

Also 2x as many women as men have received vaccinations in MD. So much for equity...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also 2x as many women as men have received vaccinations in MD. So much for equity...

Another logic fail.

More women work in healthcare roles than have been prioritized. Nurses, nursing home workers, etc.

[Anonymous]

They should go to the next (Stand-by list) if they can't contact someone or someone doesn't show. When they do, they get priority in line. Time is off the essence. We can't take a decade to get round to everyone!