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[quote=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&region=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.[/quote]

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