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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.

Ummmmm shouldn't people in their 20s be last in line (unless a front line worker). Also I think it is wrong that a 25 year old with mild asthma can get a vaccine easier than a 25 year old who is a cashier at giant. I'm not opposed to younger people getting a vaccine, I'm opposed to our system that creates winners and encourages lying.

If DC is moving at half the rate to vaccinate residents as the rest of the country (which they currently are), that is going to be a problem for re-opening anything. It's mid-March and we are at 11% while the national average is 17%. OK. if we continue at that rate where will we be in Mid-May, June compared to the rest of the country? Will they be at 40 percent and our residents at 20%? Don't you want to see summer school, camps, some tourism, life open up? Specific to schools, it's not just teachers who need to be vaccinated; many families are keeping their children home because they are worried about the virus coming home. If DC wants to function again, Mayor Bowser needs to focus on the rate of vaccinating residents as well as "essential workers". it's a fairly simple point.

Do you just enjoy feeling aggrieved? Because you seem to be willfully ignoring anything resembling actual numbers.

11 is not half of 17
We are getting vaccine at at least twice the rate we were in early days
DC is now reserving 90 percent of its vaccine for residents
"Percent residents vaccinated" is not and has never been a metric for reopening schools and camps. Oh, but wait, percent teachers vaccinated might help, and many of those teachers were the dreaded non-residents you think DC should not have vaccinated. Do you even think before you post?

Actual metrics for re-opening: Case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths, all of which are inextricably bound to our neighbor states. By mid-May our issue won't be DC residents who want a shot but can't get one; the problem is going to be the people who refuse to get the vaccine at all.

Yeah, see...the funny thing is anywhere else this would just be a given. But DC, the Meghan Markle of the Royal Family, special, deserving, complex, under-appreciated!, somehow flipped the script.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.

Ummmmm shouldn't people in their 20s be last in line (unless a front line worker). Also I think it is wrong that a 25 year old with mild asthma can get a vaccine easier than a 25 year old who is a cashier at giant. I'm not opposed to younger people getting a vaccine, I'm opposed to our system that creates winners and encourages lying.

If DC is moving at half the rate to vaccinate residents as the rest of the country (which they currently are), that is going to be a problem for re-opening anything. It's mid-March and we are at 11% while the national average is 17%. OK. if we continue at that rate where will we be in Mid-May, June compared to the rest of the country? Will they be at 40 percent and our residents at 20%? Don't you want to see summer school, camps, some tourism, life open up? Specific to schools, it's not just teachers who need to be vaccinated; many families are keeping their children home because they are worried about the virus coming home. If DC wants to function again, Mayor Bowser needs to focus on the rate of vaccinating residents as well as "essential workers". it's a fairly simple point.

Do you just enjoy feeling aggrieved? Because you seem to be willfully ignoring anything resembling actual numbers.

11 is not half of 17
We are getting vaccine at at least twice the rate we were in early days
DC is now reserving 90 percent of its vaccine for residents
"Percent residents vaccinated" is not and has never been a metric for reopening schools and camps. Oh, but wait, percent teachers vaccinated might help, and many of those teachers were the dreaded non-residents you think DC should not have vaccinated. Do you even think before you post?

Actual metrics for re-opening: Case numbers, hospitalizations, deaths, all of which are inextricably bound to our neighbor states. By mid-May our issue won't be DC residents who want a shot but can't get one; the problem is going to be the people who refuse to get the vaccine at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.

Ummmmm shouldn't people in their 20s be last in line (unless a front line worker). Also I think it is wrong that a 25 year old with mild asthma can get a vaccine easier than a 25 year old who is a cashier at giant. I'm not opposed to younger people getting a vaccine, I'm opposed to our system that creates winners and encourages lying.

If DC is moving at half the rate to vaccinate residents as the rest of the country (which they currently are), that is going to be a problem for re-opening anything. It's mid-March and we are at 11% while the national average is 17%. OK. if we continue at that rate where will we be in Mid-May, June compared to the rest of the country? Will they be at 40 percent and our residents at 20%? Don't you want to see summer school, camps, some tourism, life open up? Specific to schools, it's not just teachers who need to be vaccinated; many families are keeping their children home because they are worried about the virus coming home. If DC wants to function again, Mayor Bowser needs to focus on the rate of vaccinating residents as well as "essential workers". it's a fairly simple point.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Oh, I see 18% out of county. Does it occur to you that includes other Maryland residents? There is no equivalency between DC and MD based on these stats.

Yes, it could include other Maryland residents, but the point is that all jurisdictions are facing the same issue. That people cross political boundaries. You will get your vaccine; stop freaking out.

+1 I wish people would calm the F down.

I am getting my vaccine. Not sure what that has to do with critiquing DCs process, or the fact that DC residents are currently at 11% fully or partially vaccinated, right above Micronesia and below every other state. I feel badly for those DC residents who are not getting vaccine any time soon due to bad policy. But thanks. Now drive back to MD and do some gardening or something-it's a nice day.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.

Ummmmm shouldn't people in their 20s be last in line (unless a front line worker). Also I think it is wrong that a 25 year old with mild asthma can get a vaccine easier than a 25 year old who is a cashier at giant. I'm not opposed to younger people getting a vaccine, I'm opposed to our system that creates winners and encourages lying.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Oh, I see 18% out of county. Does it occur to you that includes other Maryland residents? There is no equivalency between DC and MD based on these stats.

Yes, it could include other Maryland residents, but the point is that all jurisdictions are facing the same issue. That people cross political boundaries. You will get your vaccine; stop freaking out.

+1 I wish people would calm the F down.

Anonymous wrote:^ Oh, I see 18% out of county. Does it occur to you that includes other Maryland residents? There is no equivalency between DC and MD based on these stats.

Yes, it could include other Maryland residents, but the point is that all jurisdictions are facing the same issue. That people cross political boundaries. You will get your vaccine; stop freaking out.

Anonymous wrote:Mayor Bowser, please stop making / posting excuses and work with what you have. Yes, DC needs more vaccine, and it's fine to ask, but we aren't somehow more deserving than all the other states. Let's live in the land of what is, not what if, and figure out how to get all DC residents competently vaccinated.

DC isn't a state, so it's not like "all other states" in getting more of an appropriate number of vaccine doses.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s math problem, where the healthcare workers and other essential employees who work in DC don’t live in DC. So half of our vaccine went to people fromVA & MD. Of course other states have people living & working in different states, but none have the same issue where all of a cities suburbs are in a different state.

Again, 23% of MoCo early vaccines went to nonresidents. Just drop it. Think of the US as a big transmission pool. The more people vaccinated, the better it is for you. Now, the WAY they are doing it with the stupid on-line appointments is a huge waste of everyone's time.

23% is not 50% and you are going to need to source your stats with better than "apparently"

Ummm... MoCo Covid dashboard... easily accessible to any Internet user (although the percentage has now dropped to 22%).
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

And I didn't use the word "apparently." And just so you understand percentages, X% of a larger jurisdiction could still be larger than 50% of a smaller jurisdiction.

All I see on this dashboard is that 17.8% of MoCo residents are partially or fully vaccinated (the national average) compared to 11% of DC. Not sure what point you are trying to make.

Scroll down to see percentage of vaccines to non-residents, which you asked me to source.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

Stop being histrionic. Seriously. You wanted a more resident-focused strategy, and that is what is happening. Now you are acting as though it doesn't matter.

DC is getting *more vaccine than ever* - 25K shots this week versus 9K on one of the weeks where we were deep into teacher vaccinations, and the vast majority is going to residents.

Healthy people in their 30s and 40s were ALWAYS among the last in line, everywhere in the country. Healthy, non-frontline, relatively young people are low-risk and can expect to be vaccinated by late spring, early summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

Well, this is new. I would personally not cap DC resident essential workers and instead stop vaccinating outside essential workers (who can get vaxxed in MD/VA). Here's the thing. The CDC has said they are not delivering any more vaccine to anyone than what is allotted for the population. DC will never make up the shortfall/gap we have created in the disastrous let's vax everyone roll-out, until there is more vax than demand nation-wide. Going to be a long wait for some residents! Forget school openings--healthy parents in their 30s , 40s will be among the very last in line.

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Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.

You can see that percentage of residents is going up week by week here:
https://coronavirus.dc.gov/data/vaccination

Going forward, the amount of vaccine available to essential workers, regardless of address, will only be 10 percent:
https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/release_content/attachments/Situational-Update-Presentation_03-08-21.pdf

^ Oh, I see 18% out of county. Does it occur to you that includes other Maryland residents? There is no equivalency between DC and MD based on these stats.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s math problem, where the healthcare workers and other essential employees who work in DC don’t live in DC. So half of our vaccine went to people fromVA & MD. Of course other states have people living & working in different states, but none have the same issue where all of a cities suburbs are in a different state.

Again, 23% of MoCo early vaccines went to nonresidents. Just drop it. Think of the US as a big transmission pool. The more people vaccinated, the better it is for you. Now, the WAY they are doing it with the stupid on-line appointments is a huge waste of everyone's time.

23% is not 50% and you are going to need to source your stats with better than "apparently"

Ummm... MoCo Covid dashboard... easily accessible to any Internet user (although the percentage has now dropped to 22%).
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/

And I didn't use the word "apparently." And just so you understand percentages, X% of a larger jurisdiction could still be larger than 50% of a smaller jurisdiction.

All I see on this dashboard is that 17.8% of MoCo residents are partially or fully vaccinated (the national average) compared to 11% of DC. Not sure what point you are trying to make.

Anonymous wrote:Non-resident rate is now about 40% and falling in recent days. This is to be expected now that we are finished with healthcare workers, teachers, firefighters, police and childcare workers. It doesn't make sense to segregate essential workers by resident/non-resident and only slows vaccinations down.

Can we have some projections based on actual facts/date/numbers? DC moved into the next group of non-residents (grocery workers, manufacturing etc.) so without prioritizing residents in an ongoing way-not the one-of last week-, why would the non-resident rate fall and by how much? DC is at 11% of residents partially or fully vaccinated. The national average is 17.7 %. Yeah, DC residents have a valid beef.