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[quote=Anonymous]I think given the restrictions on storing the Pfizer vaccine (which mean that hospitals are basically the only places that can give it) and how few doses there are of it, it makes sense for hospitals to give it to their own patients rather than forcing hospitals to create new systems to bring in any DC resident who is eligible.

The hospitals can coordinate it so that people already coming in for appointments can be vaccinated at the same time, so there are fewer random people coming into the building--that is safer for everyone. And they can target the groups that are most at risk--folks on chemo or other immunosuppresants, the oldest old, those with chronic heart/lung/kidney disease, etc.

Until we get way more vaccines, there will be limits on who gets them. This system seems as good as any.

One thing I'd do if I ran the Department of Health is set up vaccination stations at dialysis centers and work hard to get folks--especially folks on Medicaid--vaccinated. Keeping those folks from hospitalization would save DC so much money.[/quote]

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