Columbia Heights has the most COVID cases, but isn’t a priority zip code?

[Anonymous]

Columbia Heights has consistently been the neighborhood with the most COVID cases and it isn’t really close. Columbia Heights has 2045 cases and the next highest, 16th Street Heights, has 1581. How can a neighborhood that has roughly 1/3 more cases than any other neighborhood not be a priority zip code? It isn’t like Columbia Heights is full of white senior citizens that got the bulk of the early distribution of vaccines. Does anyone have an idea on the political reasoning for Columbia Heights being excluded from the priority areas?

[Anonymous]

It was in the list of priority zip codes and fell off as more people have been vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Too white.

[Anonymous]

The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too white.

This.

[Anonymous]

Is it a high rate of infection? That would be more concerning then the total case number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too white.

This.

Is Columbia Heights that white though? For every rowhome with 2 whites, there is a rowhome with 10 hispanic/latino; for every fancy new condo building with millennials 1 per 1-bedroom, there could be a neglected fire hazard apartment building with 6 hispanic/latino per apartment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too white.

This.

I laffed. Col Heights is deprioritized because no one wears masks here.

[Anonymous]

I think DC has looked at death rates. Agree , they should look at infection rates too. Though TBH--I am so over the zip codes and thousands of baskets they have created. Let people who want to get vaccinated in each phase sign up to be vaccinated in a transparent, clean manner and be done with it. Then, continue to do outreach to those who resist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

[Anonymous]

It's because Ward 1's vaccination rate for older people is higher than Ward 5, 7, and 8's. They're prioritizing vaccines to the places where the fewest people have been vaccinated.

And arguably, the folks who already had covid are probably at lower risk of getting or spreading it again, so overall case count (especially since some of those cases were many months ago) may not be the best metric.

Finally, places like Mary's Center, Unity, La Clinica del Pueblo, and Bread for the City, all of which serve many low-income residents of CH, have their own allocation of vaccines and are contacting their patients directly, so they don't have to go through the city portal unless they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

The amount of vaccine given out via the portal has more than doubled in recent weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

The amount of vaccine given out via the portal has more than doubled in recent weeks.

This graph does not show a rise in resident doses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue with DC is it is so small, we could easily be well on the way to vaccinating everyone if they just went through residents by age , condition and essential worker status. Imagine if next week instead of giving away half the vaccine out of state DC retained it, and instead of 7,500 DC residents able to be vaccinated through the DC GOV sign up-it were 14,000. In a month that would be 56,000 DC residents. Plus the hospital set asides which are another slice. Could we get to 100,000 in a month? That would be almost a 1/5 of the the 500,000 adult residents we need to vaccinate. The following month, April, another 1/5, May, another 1/5. We would be on target for everyone who wants one having one by June....and well on our way to protection in all neighborhoods, especially of the most vulnerable.
If we continue on the Mayor's 1/2 rate of vaccinating residents, on the other hand, you are looking at December 2021.

Resident vax rates are rising now that the healthcare worker bolus is finished.

Can you show the source for this? They just opened it up to grocery workers, food manufacturing etc and coninuing to vaccinate previous out of state groups. Also, seems like they are releasing about the same amount of vaccine to residents through the DC GOV sign up. So curious to see the difference in Numbers. Thanks!

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

The amount of vaccine given out via the portal has more than doubled in recent weeks.

This graph does not show a rise in resident doses.

Sure it does. Resident doses are 2x or more nonresident. The PP said that DC was giving away "half" to non-residents.