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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At this point FEMA should just open first come first serve tents.[/quote]

Agree.

The real problem is that there aren't enough vaccines available.
If more vaccines were available then tents (or health department mass vaccination spots) would make much more sense than this sign up system.

This is, in fact, what FEMA has started doing in Greensboro, NC and two other sites.
In this effort, it will not help us to be true blue.  I have a feeling swing state will be getting those vaccines first.[/quote]

Mayor Bowser/DC have been given the same population based percent of vaccine as all the other states. She has been using about half on out of state residents. This has been distributed through special clinics and signups, not the third that has been going through the web/telephone GOV signup for residents. (The other bit appears to be hospital/patient lists).If going forward she retained DCs vaccine allotment for DC residents and added it to the pool, would we not have enough to put up a tent? [/quote]

D.C.’s situation is a little bit unusual, though: A very large share of people who work in health care, as teachers, as childcare workers, as cops, as firefighters or as transit workers in the District live in a different state, mostly because D.C. is too expensive. That isn’t the case in most other cities, which usually have at least some of their suburbs in the same state as the city. So measuring the percentage of vaccines given to our residents is fine, but there’s a pretty easy explanation for it, and it still makes good sense for our public health to try to vaccinate front-line workers who spend their whole days here even if they live in another state. [/quote]

PP, DC has already vaccinated health and many teachers (who could also have been vaccinated in MD + VA). Going forward, its a math problem PP. Every dose going out of state is a dose not going into a DC resident. The govt. Is not giving DC double vaccine. Its giving vaccine for DCs population. Math. [/quote]

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