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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MD, DC, and VA are not doing a good job getting shots in arms. This is what will stop the pandemic; not everything is about "equity". We are supply-constrained. When we are demand-constrained, let's worry about people who don't want the dang shots. Every rule meant to address an inequity or impose "fairness" will slow down vaccination rates and make it more likely that new variants will get a foothold, and we will *all* lose another summer / fall to Covid. West Virginia has the highest vax rate in the contiguous U.S. because they've kept it simple. This has been nothing but a bureaucratic mess since the start in the DMV, and every new special interest group has made it worse. All of these additional "setting aside" and "quotas" will hurt everyone. [/quote]

[b]Spoken like a true white supremacist[/b]. DC and VA are exceeding national vaccination averages. The only thing that's slowing us is the limited number of vaccines available. Targeting high risk populations HELP to end the pandemic, which HELPS ALL OF US. Giving extra doses to wealthy retirees in Ward 3 rather than poor folks in Ward 5 is literally the opposite of good public health policy.[/quote]

This comment was mean and not necessary. In fact, starting with a statement like that totally discounts everything else that you say.[/quote]

I don't care if you think it's mean. There are posters here who continue to lie and lie and lie to defend the indefensible.[/quote]

Calling "white supremacist" on a post that was stating that complications reduce vaccination rates--as was literally reported in the WaPo this morning--indicates that you are not serious, and are only interested in ad hominem attacks. If you use these labels every time you don't agree with someone, you will not be taken seriously.[/quote]

You have provided no evidence that DC has reduced vaccination rates. In fact, DC is doing well by every vaccine tracker out there, better than nearly every other state. The proportion of vaccines distributed/administered is similar to every other state that is doing well.

So your justifications for doing away with DC's very modest set asides for underserved zip codes is ..... what exactly? Other than you want wealthy wards to get an even more disproportionate amount of vaccine? [/quote]

No one was underserved because it was a randomized sign up and there are plentiful sites in Ward 8. But I agree that Ward 8 ANC and Councilmembers should be manning sign-up kiosks, or just make the vaccine mandatory for Ward 8 and be done.
but no, DCs rate is not great. Among many other ways we are not doing great with vaccinations, we have administered 1/2 of what we have been distributed, despite being advised by Biden/Harris to distribute vaccine as we receive it. This puts us in line with...Florida's Republican Governor DeSantis.[/quote]

Before the set asides - [b]70 PERCENT [/b]of the appointments went to Wards 2, 3 and 6 - 38 percent of the elderly population.

If you don't call that inequitable, there is literally no hope for you. [/quote]

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