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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what happened:

MoCo has 2 county-run sites, both at schools. Those schools said they need the space back by 4/1 since schools are reopening.

MoCo proposes using Montgomery College Germantown campus as a state mass vax site. The state is focused on geographic equity and there is already one for the DC region of MD, at Six Flags. The state's focus is opening up sites to serve Western MD and Eastern Shore, since there is nothing there. The state won't open up more sites other than those, until they get more doses.

MoCo and MD meet about the Germantown site. MD offers to help MoCo with some logistics like laptops, wifi and stuff like that. MoCo takes this to mean it'll be a state-run mass vax site. MD does not. Note no paperwork was signed.

So the Germantown site is a county-run site, replacing the 2 existing county-run sites that will close on 3/31.

As for the vaccine being available to all adults by 4/27, that's true for _state-run_ vaccine sites, NOT for MoCo sites. In the name of equity, MoCo has made gettting a vaccine incredibly complicated. Just in Phase 1, there are 9 different tiers, compared to 3 in the rest of MD.

Here's the difference:

MoCo currently open for:
Phase 1A - Tier 1, Phase 1A - Tier 2, Phase 1- Tier 3, Phase 1B - Tier 1, Phase 1B - Tier 2, Phase 1B - Tier 3, Phase 1C - Tier 1 (only).

MD open for:
Phase 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A

then 3/30, MD open for:
Phase 1C, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B

In short, if you want to get a vaccine at a well-run site, sign up for the state mass vax site. You'll also be eligible sooner there.[/quote]

This is true.  I am eligible under state guidelines but not MoCo. [b] I did go to a mass vax site in Baltimore.  The downside is that I stood in line for 3 hours[/b].  But I have my vaccination.  [/quote]

Yeah, NO.

Not doing that. Nothing is worth standing in a 3 hour line, in Baltimore. No. Just no.

When I can drop by a CVS or pop-up vax site, walk up, say hello and get a shot and then be on my way in under ten minutes, that’s when I’ll get mine.

Until then, I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing the last year. It’s worked just fine so far. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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