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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down. [/quote]

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

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You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will [b]only be 10 percent[/b]:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf[/quote]

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.[/quote]

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.[/quote]

Ummmmm shouldn't people in their 20s be last in line (unless a front line worker). Also I think it is wrong that a 25 year old with mild asthma can get a vaccine easier than a 25 year old who is a cashier at giant. I'm not opposed to younger people getting a vaccine, I'm opposed to our system that creates winners and encourages lying. [/quote]

If DC is moving at half the rate to vaccinate residents as the rest of the country (which they currently are), that is going to be a problem for re-opening anything. It's mid-March and we are at [b]11% while the national average is 17%. [/b]OK. if we continue at that rate where will we be in Mid-May, June compared to the rest of the country? Will they be at 40 percent and our residents at 20%? Don't you want to see summer school, camps, some tourism, life open up? Specific to schools, it's not just teachers who need to be vaccinated; many families are keeping their children home because they are worried about the virus coming home. If DC wants to function again, Mayor Bowser needs to focus on the rate of vaccinating residents as well as "essential workers". it's a fairly simple point.  [/quote]

Do you just enjoy feeling aggrieved? Because you seem to be willfully ignoring anything resembling actual numbers.

11 is not half of 17
We are getting vaccine at at least twice the rate we were in early days
DC is now reserving 90 percent of its vaccine for residents
"Percent [b]residents vaccinated[/b]" is not and has never been a metric for reopening schools and camps. Oh, but wait, percent teachers vaccinated might help, and many of those teachers were the dreaded non-residents you think DC should not have vaccinated. Do you even think before you post?

Actual metrics for re-opening: Case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths, all of which are inextricably bound to our neighbor states. By mid-May our issue won't be DC residents who want a shot but can't get one; the problem is going to be the people who refuse to get the vaccine at all.[/quote]

Yeah, see...the funny thing is anywhere else this would just be a given. But DC, the Meghan Markle of the Royal Family, special, deserving, complex, under-appreciated!, somehow flipped the script.[/quote]

I see you are just going to troll now and not actually discuss anything of substance.[/quote]

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