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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it that DC hospitals are running their own private lists, apart from the central DC Gov web/telephone sites? Their patients are getting called directly to sign up from their patient lists. How is this equal access?[/quote]

There are a number of advantages to doing this. One, the people contacted by the hospitals are [b]likelier to actually be higher-risk[/b] than the general population (since they're patients of major hospital systems). Two, the hospitals can triage their patient list internally to call the actually higher-risk patients on the list first. Three, anyone who gets vaccinated through a health system is no longer attempting to secure an appointment through the city (or no longer needs to show up for one, if they already had booked one). And four, the logistics are easier for the hospitals to manage on their own -- they don't have to coordinate with the whole citywide system -- and they're mostly using the Pfizer vaccine, which requires colder storage and is a little more complicated than the Moderna one.

Obviously, there's a risk that the overall patterns of inequity in vaccine distribution continue in the hospital distribution, too. But there's nothing inherently unfair about having the hospitals vaccinate the portion of the population that their health systems are already aware of and in touch with. [/quote]

You lost me here. How is it not inherently unfair to be in a pool that has a greater probability of being contacted? As to 'high-risk'--the city policy based on CDC guidance addresses that.[/quote]

Sigh. [b]The system is not meant to be fair. [/b]This is your mistake. The system is meant to save lives and reduce the burden on the healthcare system. The current city policy of distributing vaccine by age and zip code does not address the risk factors that a hospital might be uniquely able to address; e.g. the cancer patients.[/quote]

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