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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Lynda Mosley, 72, of Ward 8, saw the disparities firsthand. After a neighbor who has two computers helped her snag an appointment, she and her 95-year-old mother went to the Giant supermarket on Alabama Avenue SE in Ward 8 to get their shots.

“We looked around and the whole line was non-Black people,” Mosley said, adding that Black customers shopping for food seemed surprised as well. “They looked and they said, ‘What is this? What’s going on? How do we get this?’ ”

On another day, a young White couple trekked from Northeast Washington to the Safeway on Alabama Avenue SE in Ward 8, seeking leftover doses.[/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-vaccine-disparities/2021/03/25/f9661460-8126-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html

WaPo is slowly getting better at covering DC's awful vaccine policy but I am a little surprised that the authors of this article did not follow up this paragraph with a statement of fact that while white residents are traveling to SE DC to get vaccinated, there is only one vaccinatedc.gov vaccination location in Ward 3 which administers 20 shots a day a Chevy Chase Circle. The preponderance of vaccine locations were put in areas historically underserved by DC Health in order to make the COVID vaccine more accessible to these underserved residents.

Where does DC Health want Ward 3 residents to get inoculated? At the end of the day this incorrect perception is helping their ultimate cause so they continue, four months in to allow this situation to continue with no remedy. If you don't want white people in Ward 8, give them an alternative location to be vaccinated.[/quote]

You are being deliberately obtuse, or else you don't know how to read. This article is focused on how DC hasn't done [b]enough[/b][u] to ensure equity. As much as my wealthy capitol hill neighbors screeched about the "vaccine hunger games" when you had to sign up at 9 am in a frenzy, they were the ones winning the most appointments! The fact that white people were seen getting shots on Alabama avenue has nothing to do with the fact with the location of the vaccination points; it was because they were able to snag the appointments because they were tech savvy and knew how to work multiple computers, phones and call the phone line as well.

And the percentage of seniors vaccinated in Wards 2 and 3 is 42%  and 49%, respectively. Ward 8= 25%. Ward 7=27%.[/quote]

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