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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The distribution plans can be found online at https://coronavirus.dc.gov/vaccine

Teachers and child care staff are in priority group 1b. They are behind the more than 85,000 healthcare workers (and critical healthcare staff) and adults/seniors in long term care.

Also, group 1b is really large so wouldn’t expect this group to be fully vaccinated until early Spring- like April (remembering both vaccines currently require 2 shots a couple weeks apart).

I don’t think they have announced anything solid for group 1b yet.

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UGH. I just looked at DC's plan. the health care worker pool is HUGE. I love health care workers, but they seem to be falling into Stanford's trap of going by label rather than exposure level?  For example, a researcher working from home or a pharmacist mixing in back doesn't necessarily merit the vaccine before some other folks. 
Second, DC '[b]essential politicians[/b]" (more than 3,000 of them) in 1b? WTF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????[/quote]

I'm an RN working from home and I'm back on the list (as I should be). I believe the 85k is all people with in-person patient care jobs. A pharmacist should get it because they have to work in-person.  Although they're all not face-to-face with patients, they're heading in to hospitals and drugstores daily--both very germy places.  [/quote]

The DC website said the groupings were based on category "health care worker", not level of exposure. This is basically what Stanford did and got a LOT of pushback. 85,0000 seems really, really high for a city our size. Also not sure where they dug up 3000 DC politicians who are essential to DC govt. And put them in same category as teachers???? Cmon.[/quote]

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