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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/nearly-half-of-dcs-vaccine-doses-have-gone-to-non-residents/2554842/

Of the 51,421 doses of vaccine administered in the District as of Jan. 23, data shows 47 percent went to workers who don't live in D.C. That’s far higher than in Virginia, where at least 85 percent of the commonwealth’s administered doses have gone to Virginians, and in Maryland, where at least 93 percent of doses have gone to its residents, according to an I-Team review of vaccine data mapped by in-state recipients. [/quote]

The disparity is not that surprising. Most of VA and MD are not part of the deeply interdependent DC metro area. All of DC is. [/quote]

If DC is doing this, then DC should receive a MUCH higher allocation of vaccine relative to population, as well as infrastructure support for administering it. My read is we have a certain vaccine allocation based on DC population and [b]1/2[/b] has gone to non-residents. That means, residents of DC are receiving 1/2 the vaccine allocation that residents elsewhere would expect, UNLESS the total vaccine delivered to DC is higher or an EQUAL amount of DC "workers" in other states are receiving their vaccines in other states. This is not going to stop with health care workers and teachers. There are "workers" in every category going forward, from grocery clerks to sanitation to IT. This is not about how deserving they are for vaccine; it is about how much is being allocated where. I want to see the accounting.[/quote]

This is happening in Montgomery County as well. Many of the healthcare workers and teachers do not live here and it was not accounted for when they allocated vaccine doses.[/quote]

It's just a mess. It's not about denying workers vaccine, but it is about making sure residents (who include workers) get vaccine. It is like peering through the wrong end of a telescope.[/quote]

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