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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is DC doing about as good as it can considering how much vaccine we've been given? Yes.

Did DC vaccinate far too many non-residents at the start of the process? Yes. Those people should have and could have been vaccinated in their home states. They had the doses to spare. DC didn't.

Was the sign-up process at the beginning a complete fiasco considering how long the city had to prepare? Very much yes. This is entirely on the DC government.

Is the sign-up process better now? Yes, but it's not doing a great job getting more priority residents vaccinated. The priority zip code thing needs to be ditched for something more focused, because gentrified neighborhoods in the priority zip codes are getting vaccinated at a much higher rate than non-gentrified neighborhoods. DC needs to do it by neighborhood, not zip code. DC officials have been told this numerous times and won't change it.

All of these things can be true.[/quote]

WRT to non-residents, I really don't see how they could possibly have done it any differently. There was absolutely no way to push healthcare workers, the absolute first wave, to get vaccinated in their home states. I mean, really, were they going to tell the nurses to pull out their IDs and turn 80 percent of them away? Of course not. It would have been a complete fiasco and everyone would be screaming about how inefficient and petty the District is, refusing to vaccinate our frontline healthcare workers. And there are 85,000 healthcare workers in DC! And 20,000 teachers! They probably could have pushed back on the 3,000 grocery store people, but those folks are actually much more likely to live in DC.

I agree with the rest of your points.[/quote]

Weren't MD and VA also prioritizing healthcare workers and teachers?[/quote]

But it makes sense for healthcare workers to get the shots where they work.

That's why DC should have been allocated more shots.

I agree with the Atlantic. Blame Congress. Blame anyone fighting fair representation by fighting statehood.[/quote]

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