Nearly Half of DC's Vaccine Doses Have Gone to Non-Residents

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/nearly-half-of-dcs-vaccine-doses-have-gone-to-non-residents/2554842/

Of the 51,421 doses of vaccine administered in the District as of Jan. 23, data shows 47 percent went to workers who don't live in D.C. That’s far higher than in Virginia, where at least 85 percent of the commonwealth’s administered doses have gone to Virginians, and in Maryland, where at least 93 percent of doses have gone to its residents, according to an I-Team review of vaccine data mapped by in-state recipients.

[Anonymous]

Wait til you find out how many people from the suburbs came into our city for free Covid tests.

[Anonymous]

From the same link:

As the region scrambles to vaccinate as many people as possible, the District, Virginia and Maryland have each agreed to vaccinate people who work in essential roles, no matter where they live.

If I'm reading that article correctly, the issue is that all three geographic units have agree to vaccinate workers in their area, even if they come there to work but live in another area. For some reason, DC is having a lot of people who work here but live elsewhere get vaccinated here.

I wonder if a lot are getting vaccinated through their employer, whether hospital and/or federal government workers?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the hospitals, nursing homes and feds were first to vaccinate essential workers. And a lot of the people who work in DC in those roles don’t live in DC. This is not particularly surprising given how we are going about it.

[Anonymous]

I'd love to know where the accounting fell though. As doses are distributed is DC getting credit for its 700,000 population or its much larger work force? If I live in DC and work on the Amazon HQ2 project am I supposed to be looking for inoculation guidance from Arlington and not DC (asking for a friend).

[Anonymous]

They also steal our free preK. Messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the hospitals, nursing homes and feds were first to vaccinate essential workers. And a lot of the people who work in DC in those roles don’t live in DC. This is not particularly surprising given how we are going about it.

Essential workers and health care workers were vaccinated first. These are nursing assistants, nurses, janitorial staff, etc. Many of them can’t afford to live in the District and live in my neighborhood in PG County. As you start vaccinating the general public the percentage of DC residents will go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the hospitals, nursing homes and feds were first to vaccinate essential workers. And a lot of the people who work in DC in those roles don’t live in DC. This is not particularly surprising given how we are going about it.

Essential workers and health care workers were vaccinated first. These are nursing assistants, nurses, janitorial staff, etc. Many of them can’t afford to live in the District and live in my neighborhood in PG County. As you start vaccinating the general public the percentage of DC residents will go up.

as it should be. these are the people we mingle with. not the people NOT getting the vaccine, staying home. That's on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the hospitals, nursing homes and feds were first to vaccinate essential workers. And a lot of the people who work in DC in those roles don’t live in DC. This is not particularly surprising given how we are going about it.

Essential workers and health care workers were vaccinated first. These are nursing assistants, nurses, janitorial staff, etc. Many of them can’t afford to live in the District and live in my neighborhood in PG County. As you start vaccinating the general public the percentage of DC residents will go up.

This 1000%. I live in DC but teach in Virginia. I got vaccinated at INOVA Fairfax last week. I'm more the exception than the rule as someone who doesn't live in VA but works there. I don't believe anyone is jumping any lines or that there is corruption with the distribution. We simply have many people who work here that reside outside the District.

And this isn't the same as COVID testing where many non-DC residents have been getting testing here. That's really easy to do as you just show up. With the vaccine, all of these initial doses are scheduled through their healthcare employers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/nearly-half-of-dcs-vaccine-doses-have-gone-to-non-residents/2554842/

Of the 51,421 doses of vaccine administered in the District as of Jan. 23, data shows 47 percent went to workers who don't live in D.C. That’s far higher than in Virginia, where at least 85 percent of the commonwealth’s administered doses have gone to Virginians, and in Maryland, where at least 93 percent of doses have gone to its residents, according to an I-Team review of vaccine data mapped by in-state recipients.

The disparity is not that surprising. Most of VA and MD are not part of the deeply interdependent DC metro area. All of DC is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/nearly-half-of-dcs-vaccine-doses-have-gone-to-non-residents/2554842/

Of the 51,421 doses of vaccine administered in the District as of Jan. 23, data shows 47 percent went to workers who don't live in D.C. That’s far higher than in Virginia, where at least 85 percent of the commonwealth’s administered doses have gone to Virginians, and in Maryland, where at least 93 percent of doses have gone to its residents, according to an I-Team review of vaccine data mapped by in-state recipients.

The disparity is not that surprising. Most of VA and MD are not part of the deeply interdependent DC metro area. All of DC is.

That's a really good point. There are huge parts of VA and MD where it would make no sense for a DC resident to work or try to get vaccinated. No one in DC is terribly far from MD/VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/nearly-half-of-dcs-vaccine-doses-have-gone-to-non-residents/2554842/

Of the 51,421 doses of vaccine administered in the District as of Jan. 23, data shows 47 percent went to workers who don't live in D.C. That’s far higher than in Virginia, where at least 85 percent of the commonwealth’s administered doses have gone to Virginians, and in Maryland, where at least 93 percent of doses have gone to its residents, according to an I-Team review of vaccine data mapped by in-state recipients.

The disparity is not that surprising. Most of VA and MD are not part of the deeply interdependent DC metro area. All of DC is.

If DC is doing this, then DC should receive a MUCH higher allocation of vaccine relative to population, as well as infrastructure support for administering it. My read is we have a certain vaccine allocation based on DC population and 1/2 has gone to non-residents. That means, residents of DC are receiving 1/2 the vaccine allocation that residents elsewhere would expect, UNLESS the total vaccine delivered to DC is higher or an EQUAL amount of DC "workers" in other states are receiving their vaccines in other states. This is not going to stop with health care workers and teachers. There are "workers" in every category going forward, from grocery clerks to sanitation to IT. This is not about how deserving they are for vaccine; it is about how much is being allocated where. I want to see the accounting.

[Anonymous]

Now that Trump is gone I am sure that Bowser can solve this with a phone call to President Biden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that Trump is gone I am sure that Bowser can solve this with a phone call to President Biden.

The DC COVID website clearly states DC is all about vaccinating residents and "workers" (meaning out of staters). Gotta love the largesse without any facts or figures about what actual DC residents can expect.

[Anonymous]

Vaccines are being allocated by population (where you live).

This is really messed up that DC is not getting extra to cover people who live outside the District. Initially Maryland and Virginia shared some with DC but I don’t think they have recently.

Hope Bowser’s sucking up to Biden fixes this problem. If not, going to have a lot of angry DC residents. Right now the doses for DC residents 65+ are gone in minutes.