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[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]

But D.C. is probably the only jurisdiction in the country where (a) every suburb is in another state and (b) by far most employees live in another state. Plus, there's probably less housing here that's affordable for health care workers, teachers, etc., than in other cities (because the area of the city is so small; we don't have the equivalent of a far-off neighborhood in Queens). The regional issues are more complicated here than anywhere else because of the nature of the political geography of the area.[/quote]

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