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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So people here want the county to give them the vaccines instead of to older people?

MoCo is not slow in delivering shots. They take a week to administer the ones they get each week. They literally could not do this faster. They just aren't giving them to YOU because there are still older people who need them.[/quote]
? What?  Phase based on health, age, and profession is fine.  But MoCo also throws in race into their equity framework for who gets priority.

No one is sayng older people shouldn't get vaccinated first. No one is saying it should be first come first serve for the entire population. The state also follows phased approaches based on age, profession, health, but MoCo applies the equity framework which means that certain racial groups in the phased groups get priority over the other racial groups.

This is slowing down getting people vaccinated because they are holding it up for those specific groups. Yes, MoCo eventually uses up the vaccines, but if they didn't put the race factor in, they could do it faster.

[quote]“Within those top-priority ZIP codes, the [b]county doses will be allocated based on case rate and death rates by[u] race and ethnicity[/u] for folks living in the ZIP codes [/b]that have been disproportionately impacted,” Crowel added.[/quote]

So if you live in that zip code, but you aren't a particular race, you won't get priority.  That seems discriminatory to me.

https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2021/02/montgomery-county-to-prioritize-covid-19-vaccine-doses-by-zip-code/[/quote]

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