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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t the whole point to get people in DC vaccinated? Whether they live here, or work here - they’re still HERE.

You can be infected just as easily by someone who works in DC as someone who lives in DC. They both spend time out and about it DC, and both have the same likelihood of infecting others. Where they sleep at night is a pointless distinction.

The whole argument is absurd. [/quote]

Um, no--the point is that each state has a plan to vaccinate their own residents. If DC residents are cut out, they cannot protect their own health, get back in the workforce, visit kids, relatives attend funerals etc. We have actually been doing a GREAT job keeping the rates down in DC, behaving and doing the right thing. Now vaccinate us.

I would love to know the Mayor's entering argument for vaccines for DC. Did she tell the FEDS 700,000--the actual population? Or a million, to account for vaccinating workers from other states? If the latter, fine, as long as we have the resources to administer. if the former, then residents are getting shorted by our local government, while other local governments look out for their resides. #notright

This whole discussion can be 'solved' by DC GOV releasing the actual reasoning and figures behind this effort to vaccinate out of state workers.[/quote]

Ever since the first allocation of doses (for health care workers) when it was clear that the distribution was based on population but DC wasn’t getting extra to cover out of state workers Bowser has been pushing the feds and MD and VA for more doses.  They have given DC some but not enough to make up for the shortfall [/quote]

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