I may be oversimplifying the issue here, but why doesn't DCHealth continue to give vaccines out the way it is to workers who work in the city and then at the end of the week, perhaps in a weekly "hot wash" DC, MD, and VA health officials reconcile doses administered and adjust vaccines within their jurisdictions accordingly ensuring everyone gets a vaccine at their place of work and that the state/city vaccine doses are injected ultimately into state and city residents.

At the end of the day everything is transparent to the worker and the state/city health department resolves numbers on the margins.

Don't we have working relationships with MD and VA?

Why is this a FED issue if it can so easily be handled at a local level.

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Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising.

Would you prefer GW doctors not be vaccinated?

Does that 2.5% include the 2500 DC prisoners who have already been offered vaccines?

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Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising.

No need for schools. No need for vaccines. Building permits take 8 years. Just the usual run of the mill incompetence.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising.

And then to talk about equity for Ward 8 tho?

^ Point being we are 3 months in to the vaccine roll out. To be dead last in America AND territories in vaccinating your own residents seems like an equity issue ya might want to focus upon.

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Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising.

And then to talk about equity for Ward 8 tho?

Anonymous wrote:This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Exactly. Total failure of leadership by Bowser. But also totally unsurprising.

Anonymous wrote:Whoever is posting about DC receiving doses from MD and VA, please stop. This is no longer the strategy that the Mayor is espousing. She believes that this is a federal problem and not a regional problem. She is no longer negotiating with the Governors of VA and MD, but has written a letter to President Biden asking for the math to be changed. Until a decision is made on that, she will continue inoculating out of state DC workers as it provides her leverage on a federal level that she otherwise does not have on a national stage.

Well, let's be clear. She joined with the Md and Va to request the Feds take on the vaccination of essential Federal workers, Metro and Post Office. She has not addressed all the other out of state workers and residents who are currently being offered and will in the future be offered vaccine through general signs up and special clinics the city organizes for them. This basket of non-Fed out of state folks that DC has deemed essential and vaccinated without ensuring adequate supply is the reason that DC is dead last, and we will stay dead last until the Mayor fully (not marginally) changes "the strategy she is espousing".

Whoever is posting about DC receiving doses from MD and VA, please stop. This is no longer the strategy that the Mayor is espousing. She believes that this is a federal problem and not a regional problem. She is no longer negotiating with the Governors of VA and MD, but has written a letter to President Biden asking for the math to be changed. Until a decision is made on that, she will continue inoculating out of state DC workers as it provides her leverage on a federal level that she otherwise does not have on a national stage.

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Anonymous wrote:So, DC isn't dead last in terms of how many people it's vaccinated, just skewed because it's vaccinated a large number of non-residents (who presumably work in DC in health care or the like)? Seems like DC's in a hard spot because of the number of people who come into the city and interact with residents.

Grr.

Yet another reason DC should be a state. If we had two Senators, the Senators would be pushing for more doses. But we have no representation, so the government listens to us less.

Make DC a state.

I agree with "grrr", except no one is forcing DC to dole out DCs supply to non-residents. It was a great idea in theory IF everyone was "playing nice" and donating equitable quantities of vaccine to DC. They aren't. 10,000 grocery/food service workers from anywhere in the DMV are scheduled next, and DC isn't near completing seniors. If DC Mayor, Council and Nesbitt want "more vaccine"--then negotiate for it with MD/VA and the Feds, or call the bluff and prioritize DC residents. You have to actually try to be last. Not a case for statehood.

This is on the Mayor. She had a deal for an initial 8K doses from both VA and MD, but then nothing after that. Now we are just inoculating their residents with zero plan to recoup doses for DC residents.

Anonymous wrote:So, DC isn't dead last in terms of how many people it's vaccinated, just skewed because it's vaccinated a large number of non-residents (who presumably work in DC in health care or the like)? Seems like DC's in a hard spot because of the number of people who come into the city and interact with residents.

We're in a "hard spot" because DC leadership hasn't successfully negotiated more vaccine to account for this ongoing situation, yet has voiced no plans to prioritize residents going forward. Meanwhile, most residents are quiescently avoiding interaction when possible, making it even easier for our leadership to mask this. You have to almost try to be last.

Anonymous wrote:So, DC isn't dead last in terms of how many people it's vaccinated, just skewed because it's vaccinated a large number of non-residents (who presumably work in DC in health care or the like)? Seems like DC's in a hard spot because of the number of people who come into the city and interact with residents.

Grr.

Yet another reason DC should be a state. If we had two Senators, the Senators would be pushing for more doses. But we have no representation, so the government listens to us less.

Make DC a state.

So, DC isn't dead last in terms of how many people it's vaccinated, just skewed because it's vaccinated a large number of non-residents (who presumably work in DC in health care or the like)? Seems like DC's in a hard spot because of the number of people who come into the city and interact with residents.

Wow, once you strip out of state recipients of DC vaccinations from DC's numbers, we are dead last in the country in percentage of residents inoculated, first or second shot.