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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More bad press for DC.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-dc-failing-vaccination-game/618466/?fbclid=IwAR1FqbyKnIBPYv7pdp1HV35LQKJYyTLhTTBcbL4_PSnPRe48BDvkHwaSGos[/quote]

Hardly bad press! This is GREAT press for DC! Thanks for fposting!

[quote]HHS decided early on that vaccine doses would be distributed to states and territories based on population. For most jurisdictions, that made sense. For D.C., it made no sense at all. That’s because D.C. must vaccinate a huge number of people who live in other states.

Three-quarters of all the people who work in D.C. live in Maryland or Virginia, mostly because housing in the District is too expensive. The capital’s so-called daytime population, which includes people who come into the city every day to work, is nearly double the nighttime population of about 700,000. Many of these people are essential workers who can’t work from home and therefore must be vaccinated to do their jobs—hospital workers, police officers, firefighters, teachers, grocery workers.
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Blame HHS for the fact that the District has inoculated so few of its residents; the department is not giving the District enough vaccine doses. Blame Congress for resisting D.C.’s demands for statehood, which would give the capital more clout in such situations. As for D.C.’s poor efficiency record at delivering the few doses in its possession, the city government’s performance may not be quite as bad as it looks.
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