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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain where the 10k weekly vaccines are going? Is the city doing mobile clinics or no sign-up drives (which I Hope is the answer instead of them just sitting around).

Also, per the DC sure vaccines are way down last week...why? Per the Post the city is waging a PR war because it doesn’t agree with White House reporting. But, I wish they would focus on vaccines in arms instead of a PR campaign.

DCist with numbers that doesn’t account fir 19k vaccines: 
[url] https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/[/url][/quote]

WRT the 10K, some go to the hospitals and partners and about 2K go to special initiatives (bringing directly into senior housing, church clinics, etc). this has been standard week over week.[/quote]

DC IS focused on the PR war which it does not realize it has lost. This is yet another occasion where DC can't decide whether or not it really wants to be treated like a state or a district. I'd like to know where all of the data is that all of the other states provide. Where are the second doses going? Why is the Federal Pharmacy Program allotment not going to pharmacies which participate in the program?

DC is so busy yelling at the Fed that it is not doing its own housekeeping. WaPo is at least starting to point some of this out. If you take DC at its word and accept all of its data it will not show us, that would move DC from bottom five to bottom ten...are we really expected to be happy with that?

Why has the published vaccination plan and strategy not been updated since last June when it was just cut and paste from some other strategy and never really applied?

Why is DC not reminding people who have received an appointment that their first or second shot appointment is coming up? (maybe an email or a text message)

Why is DC not participating in any of the dozen impossible to fake encrypted digital vaccination passports rather than just word of mouth and a white card with vaccination dates on it to prove vaccination status?

Mayor is worried about Statehood PR rather than DC health...that is why.
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As pointed out in the recent WaPo story, DC officials clearly are more concerned with perception than performance. That's why they're spending so much time bickering with the feds over DC's vaccination stats, while also spending great effort keeping their actual numbers out of the public's eyes. They want to be *seen* as doing a great job when the city's performance has been Alabama-level, at best.

But hey, at least they wrote "DC needs more vaccine" on the registration site. That will light a fire under someone, for sure. How long are we going to let Bowser use that as a crutch for her own well-documented incompetence?[/quote]

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