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[quote=Anonymous]UPDATE below. Well, at least Elissa Silverman feels "devastated". How about putting a stoppage on vaccinating out of state workers????:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-dc-maryland-virginia/2021/02/17/0f80f218-711b-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

"D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced late Wednesday that she expanded eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine. Beginning Thursday, workers in grocery stores, health and human services and social services outreach, manufacturing and food packaging will become eligible to book vaccination appointments in the city....

Bowser, Northam and Hogan had asked the federal government last week to take responsibility for vaccinating as many as 30,000 federal workers in the region.[b]“We are hearing from FEMA that that request almost certainly will not be approved,” Rodriguez said. “We have not received anything official in writing.”[/b]

“[b]That’s devastating, in a way[/b],” Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) responded.

Ankoor Shah, the city’s vaccine program director, also dashed another of the District’s hopes for getting more doses, saying neighboring states won’t offer more loaned doses to cover the tens of thousands of nonresident workers getting vaccinated in the District. [b]“They nicely declined our multiple requests to pitch in to give vaccines,” Shah said about Maryland and Virginia,[/b] which initially provided enough doses to fully vaccinate about 8,000 of their residents who work in the District, but more recently have refused to send more doses amid a shortage across the region. “Actually, they’ve been asking us for vaccines, as well.”[/quote]

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