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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, and only 19% of DC residents have one shot - 6th from last.

This is a failure of leadership.  Period.[/quote]

With 80,000 healthcare workers in DC, most of whom live in other jurisdictions, it's not a failure of leadership. Period. It's a rock and hard place.[/quote]

I guess that my question about this is this:

If healthcare workers were top priority in every jurisdiction in every state and territory, why could the MD and VA healthcare workers who work in DC not have been vaccinated in their home states, where the Fed had sent their shots to based on their populations?[/quote]

Because the guidance was for everyone to be vaccinated at the facilities where they work. Sibley vaccinated all of its workers, regardless of where they live. Suburban Hospital vaccinated all of its workers, regardless of where they live. There is literally no other good way to do it. Can you imagine if Suburban had its doses ready and started asking nurses what state they live in before giving them the shot?

DC specifically requested extra vaccine to cover our disproportionately out-of-state workforce, but this was denied.[/quote]

It is funny. No other cross state work force has complained about this. They all just worked it out. In the DC area we love to think that this is unique to us in DC. New Hampshire and Massachusetts just worked it out. The issue that they are having there is over taxes on unemployment benefits. In those two states you get taxed in the state that you earn the income in and now with the work from home, New Hampshire wants to start collecting the taxes on unemployment that was paid in New Hampshire and from WFH people staying in NH. Obviously Massachusetts wants to continue collecting those taxes. But they got the vaccine issues squared away without involving the Fed. [/quote]

How did they resolve it? DC also asked MD and VA for extra doses (above the 16K given in the beginning), and MD and VA said no, too.[/quote]

Both MD and VA have come back and said that they believed the 16K doses which were sent to DC were to cover the initial "emergency" and that subsequent immunization should have been conducted within home jurisdictions. Whether we believe that or not, that is how they interpreted the initial 8K doses from each state to DC.[/quote]

All three jurisdictions agreed that essential workers would be vaccinate where they worked. [/quote]

You can say this. But the fact of the matter is that the three jurisdictions came to an agreement. That agreement was 8K from each state to DC to vaccinate workers where they worked. It would appear, whether you believe it or not, that both MD and VA believe that agreement was only for the initial emergency over the first two weeks of vaccinating essential personnel. Both of those states then believed that they would be able to accommodate healthcare workers etc after the initial push. Of the people at the meeting, on Bowser was under the impression that this agreement was fluid and additional vaccine beyond the terms of the agreement would be forthcoming.
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