Credit where credit is due: DC has improved Resident Vaccine Coverage

[Anonymous]

Many of us (myself included) criticized Mayor Muriel Bowser and her team for prioritizing non-residents over residents and having too many vaccines in storage when they should be in peoples' arms.

I am grateful that after this criticism was expressed, she changed course. Now, we are moving up in national rankings of states in percentage of the populace vaccinated and in percentage of the vaccine distributed.


Here's the latest data:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

And here's where the latest data places us in national rankings:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html?name=styln-coronavirus-live®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&impression_id=&variant=1_Show

We're moving up.

Finally the message has gotten through that the most important thing is to get shots in arms quickly. This has benefits for all of us.
It looks like some of the uptick may be that healthy young people are being offered appointments:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-medstar-kaiser-vaccine-ineligible/2021/03/26/d9fedbee-8cec-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html

And I'm all for it. Get all the willing folks vaccinated and spend the time to cajole resistant people later.

Though mass vaccination sites in wards 7 and 8 would help as well.

[Anonymous]

Great - more vaccines for everyone

[Anonymous]

I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Are you registered with the hospitals? Georgetown, Sibley, GW? That is how I got mine last week - fifties with a preexisting condition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Are you registered with the hospitals? Georgetown, Sibley, GW? That is how I got mine last week - fifties with a preexisting condition.

No--you had to have been a recent patient, right? I have never been hospitalized, other than childbirth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Are you registered with the hospitals? Georgetown, Sibley, GW? That is how I got mine last week - fifties with a preexisting condition.

No--you had to have been a recent patient, right? I have never been hospitalized, other than childbirth.

I am a patient there, yes. Not sure if that is a requirement still or not. Check out the sites. If it is still required, might be worth a quick telehealth appt with a np to get in system. Or maybe DC will come through soon. It’s frustrating I know my dh is waiting too.

[Anonymous]

I preregistered the very first day and am getting my first shot today (moderna). Impressed with DC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Are you registered with the hospitals? Georgetown, Sibley, GW? That is how I got mine last week - fifties with a preexisting condition.

No--you had to have been a recent patient, right? I have never been hospitalized, other than childbirth.

I am a patient there, yes. Not sure if that is a requirement still or not. Check out the sites. If it is still required, might be worth a quick telehealth appt with a np to get in system. Or maybe DC will come through soon. It’s frustrating I know my dh is waiting too.

It looks like, if you are eligible, you can register for a vaccine at M&T stadium in Baltimore easily. Apparently there are so many open slots there that they are not filled and they are looking for people to fill them.
https://www.baltimoreravens.com/stadium/covid-19-vaccinations/

[Anonymous]

Also, I wanted to make sure you saw this thread:https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/961608.page

[Anonymous]

Trying again:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/961608.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I preregistered the very first day and am getting my first shot today (moderna). Impressed with DC!

+1

Me too.

[Anonymous]

Wow, DC residents have such low standards. You seriously made a post giving kudos to an incompetent mayor because... DC is in the bottom 25% of states in terms of vaccinations? Your own link shows only 11 states are doing worse. Umm... yeah... sure, congrats mayor

[Anonymous]

If you think it's bad now, wait until May 1 when the feds are forcing DC to open things up to everyone (it's the federal deadline for doing so, and DC will be the last jurisdiction in the country to wait until May 1).

DC wanted to have 70 percent of its seniors fully vaccinated by March 1. It's now nearly April 1 and we're nowhere near that.

https://twitter.com/stalebread14/status/1376524438615814153?s=19

Meanwhile, DC's covid numbers are creeping up again into dangerous territory. But hey, at least more people can eat and drink indoors again.

[Anonymous]

Also, DC giving certain zip codes priority treatment is not working, because the gentrified neighborhoods of those zip codes are now well ahead of the non-gentrified neighborhoods in those zip codes. If DC really cared about equity, it would start bringing the vaccine to the people who need it, not letting gentrifiers in certain zip codes take all the vaccine. The targeted areas need to be narrowed down or else the equity issue (and the overall efficiency issue) is going to get much, much worse:

https://twitter.com/stalebread14/status/1377253136566468611

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Make sure that you’re registered everywhere that you can be registered. There are pharmacies, income those at grocery stores, that have separate registration processes. There are hospitals- like Adventist — that take people from anywhere in the Metro region, so make sure that you’re on their lists.