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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What more is the government supposed to do to get Black and Hispanics to get a vaccine?  They are literally going door to door and waiting at bus stops and metro exits to assist/escort folks to vaccine appt.

Quite frankly - at this stage of the vaccine rollout - I am not sure what else can be done.   Shall we offer all minorities a monetary reward to get a vaccine?  Is that fair to the thousands of other residents who want but can not get a vaccine? [/quote]

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We'll, I saw a flyer online for a Ward 8 event this weekend where they are also handing out $25 gift cards to residents who get the vaccine.  No idea where the money is coming from.  But yes, seems that they are now offering a monetary reward.  Both the reward the gift card is only available to those from certain zip codes.[/quote]

Some of these priority Ward-targeted initiatives are open to all adults, not just ones with age or medical or employment eligibility. So now DC's distribution plan is throwing actual medical prioritization out in favor of social engineering??

Here's the referenced article in the Post. It sounds like this extreme rationing hasn't even been necessary.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-dc-maryland-virginia/2021/04/02/9dc4c3d2-93c2-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html[/url][/quote]

I think that is fine, actually. It is good for that high-risk, high-spread community to vaccinated. It does help at all. My issue is that every day there are dozens of available appointments at CVS that are wide open, but as we saw from the health forum are going to MD eligible who get rerouted here. For DC, it is only available to teachers, health care workers, and priority zip codes, so that means MD folks are getting them (or people who are lying). I've called the mayor's office, emailed them several times, called the hotline. I finally got up and drove to Salisbury. [/quote]

I’m the MD poster you mention, I think. I got a second dose as scheduled at CVS today. Presented my MD DL. No questions were asked. Then I saw this:

https://dcist.com/story/21/04/05/dc-vaccine-pharmacies-appointments/[/quote]

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