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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is moving to residents with health conditions next week and getting more vaccine doses than ever. I have no concerns that we are on a perfectly acceptable pace for vaccinating residents.[/quote] You are hilarious. Np, it is not acceptable to have 3.1% of residents complete as per city paper article-- when many states (with far more logistical hurdles) are at 5 or 6 %. This is a conscious decision by DC rulership to deny vaccine to residents.[/quote] Yes, it's a conscious decision to prioritize the workforce; an approach that might not be your favorite but is scientifically valid. DC is giving out all the vaccines it has to residents and workers, and trying to reach underserved populations. We've moved to residents with health conditions, which is wonderful news for those who are high risk due to their health issues. The percentage of non-residents is expected to fall now that teachers and healthcare professionals (a huge group) is done. As far as I am concerned, the employees who interact with DC residents for 8 hours a day are just as important to our coronavirus spread (which has fallen to orange) as anyone.[/quote] We are going into month four of vaccination efforts. [b]DC Health care workers and in person teachers and childcare workers have been vaccinated[/b]. Other "workers" are being offered DC vaccine, when they have the option to be vaccinated in their states. [b]DC residents don't have that option. [/b]The stats prove that DC is way out of whack with every other state in vaccinating residents. Like, by half as much. Apparently DC does not care about "underserved populations" or they would focus on DC residents-BUT TOO HARD. Fixed that for you.[/quote] What on earth do you mean? DC residents absolutely can get vaccinated in another state where they work. I am a DC resident under 65 who was vaccinated at my job site in Virginia. My best friends lives in Maryland but got vaccinated in Virginia where she teaches. [/quote] I can help you understand PP! Far more workers come into the District to work than leave to work (like you). This has resulted in a sharp disparity between the number of out of staters DC is vaccinating with the vaccine allotted based on DCs resident population, as compared to MD and VA. While that is happy for you, it does not create equity for the other residents of DC. According to an article in this week's City Paper, [b]only 3.1 % of DC residents have received both vaccines[/b]. According to the Washington Post, here are the stats for the rest of the country. Our small city of 500,000 -- many who are minority and low SES-- is dead last in the nation for vaccinating residents. I hope this helps you to understand what is being discussed in this thread. The third column in the data below is complete vaccinations. The DC data is incorrect, because it is aggregating residents with out of state residents. The real figure is 3.1 . Of course, DC has vaccinated an amount equal to that who are from our of state--effectively giving away 1 does out of state for every dose given to a resident. Every single state in the country is ahead of DC, some by 3X as much, and therefore the 'pace' of vaccinating residents of DC is significantly lower than the 'pace' of vaccinating residents of other states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-vaccine-states-distribution-doses/?itid=sn_coronavirus_3/ Republic of Palau 7,073 39.5% 16.9% American Samoa 18,816 33.8% 14% Alaska 154,392 21.1% 11.6% Guam 32,809 19.8% 10.5% New Mexico 404,641 19.3% 9.6% South Dakota 159,128 18% 8.8% Northern Mariana Islands 9,696 17% 11.7% Connecticut 602,697 16.9% 7.8% North Dakota 128,669 16.9% 8.6% West Virginia 293,891 16.4% 9.9% Marshall Islands 9,462 16.2% 3.2% Massachusetts 1,100,775 16% 5.7% Wyoming 92,151 15.9% 7.5% Hawaii 224,806 15.9% 7.7% Montana 169,164 15.8% 6.8% District of Columbia 110,923 15.7% 7.9% Vermont 96,215 15.4% 7.6% Arizona 1,121,773 15.4% 5.5% Maine 205,886 15.3% 6.8% Oklahoma 600,293 15.2% 7.6% Wisconsin 869,836 14.9% 6.5% Iowa 457,493 14.5% 4.8% Colorado 832,798 14.5% 6.8% Minnesota 800,484 14.2% 6.5% Illinois 1,786,799 14.1% 4.7% California 5,569,473 14.1% 5.3% Virginia 1,197,154 14% 6.3% New Hampshire 190,064 14% 6.2% Rhode Island 147,118 13.9% 6.1% Delaware 135,175 13.9% 5.2% Nebraska 266,231 13.8% 6.4% New Jersey 1,205,639 13.6% 6.2% Washington 1,033,551 13.6% 5.8% Oregon 568,729 13.5% 6.9% Florida 2,884,231 13.4% 7% Pennsylvania 1,709,641 13.4% 5.2% Nevada 410,093 13.3% 6% North Carolina 1,389,913 13.3% 6.9% Indiana 887,936 13.2% 6.1% Kentucky 579,549 13% 6% Ohio 1,515,448 13% 6.1% Michigan 1,288,410 12.9% 6.8% Idaho 229,220 12.8% 5.6% Louisiana 596,165 12.8% 6.7% South Carolina 654,169 12.7% 5.2% Maryland 764,026 12.6% 6.1% New York 2,433,665 12.5% 6.4% Kansas 360,817 12.4% 5.2% Arkansas 372,786 12.4% 5.4% Missouri 747,804 12.2% 5.7% Mississippi 357,173 12% 5% Alabama 580,477 11.8% 4.8% Federated States of Micronesia 12,196 11.8% 2.3% Georgia 1,213,224 11.4% 5.9% Texas 3,309,933 11.4% 5.1% Tennessee 767,826 11.2% 5.4% Virgin Islands 11,669 11.1% 5% Utah 356,619 11.1% 4.6% Puerto Rico 322,212 10.1% 4.9% [/quote]
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