So I understand that POC overall have had worse outcomes with COVID. But have there been any studies showing that race alone is a contributing factor? Or is it that POC are more likely to live in crowded/substandard conditions, poorer health overall and less access to healthcare? In other words, is there any reason to believe that an AA person of similar age, health, and socioeconomic status to their white neighbor is still more predisposed to a worse outcome?

Not trying to start a controversy, just wondering if researchers have dug into this. We know that different races have different outcomes with sickle cell anemia, for instance.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Both are true, actually.

No clear as to why a 65 healthy person gets to be in front on an 80 year due to what Ward they live in.

Other then to vote for Bowser.

Ward 3 can sign up on Friday. Stop lying.

Ward 3 has fewer sign up days than other wards. Where is the lie?

Ward 3 sucked up all the vaccine already. They can wait until things even out a bit.

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

But that’s because POC and poor people don’t live as long, at least partly due to systemic racism.

Really, I haven't seen those studies, only pronouncements that it MUST be true.

Where is the data for people over 75?

Anonymous wrote:Just give it to all the POC first, and eliminate any possibility of bickering. Because that’s the only option where someone isn’t bleating “that’s racist!” .

I’m white, and will happily go to the end of the line just to get people to STFU.

Condescending as f$&@ but I guess that’s what this leads to. The idea of “acknowledging your privilege” will just leave to more and more reinforcement of this kind of superiority complex of “self sacrifice” and we are now on our way to teaching white kids to adopt this mentality of superior benevolence And pitying toward their “poor disadvantaged” friends of other races. Remind me again how this “anti”racism combats views of white supremacy rather than reinforces it?

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined.

"DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014):

Ward 1 9,441
Ward 2 11,058
Ward 3 17,581
Ward 4 16,771
Ward 5 15,204
Ward 6 13,848
Ward 7 14,200
Ward 8. 9,589

Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. "

Are you still waiting, pp?

Just doing some math to respond to this person. Was this you?

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

Ward 3 doesn't have TWICE as many elderly as ANY other ward, much less EVERY other ward.

Ward 3 has 16 percent of the elderly population and yet has received 26 percent of the vaccines.

So STFU, WARD 3.

Youre crudity doesnt change that ward 3 has twice as many elderly as ward 8. By-eee!

I thought you might be a bored high schooler, now I know it. Can't add or spell.

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined.

"DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014):

Ward 1 9,441
Ward 2 11,058
Ward 3 17,581
Ward 4 16,771
Ward 5 15,204
Ward 6 13,848
Ward 7 14,200
Ward 8. 9,589

Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. "

Are you still waiting, pp?

Just doing some math to respond to this person. Was this you?

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

Ward 3 doesn't have TWICE as many elderly as ANY other ward, much less EVERY other ward.

Ward 3 has 16 percent of the elderly population and yet has received 26 percent of the vaccines.

So STFU, WARD 3.

Youre crudity doesnt change that ward 3 has twice as many elderly as ward 8. By-eee!

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Anonymous wrote:No. Both are true, actually.

No clear as to why a 65 healthy person gets to be in front on an 80 year due to what Ward they live in.

Other then to vote for Bowser.

Ward 3 can sign up on Friday. Stop lying.

Ward 3 has fewer sign up days than other wards. Where is the lie?

Ward 3 sucked up all the vaccine already. They can wait until things even out a bit.

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

But that’s because POC and poor people don’t live as long, at least partly due to systemic racism.

Really, I haven't seen those studies, only pronouncements that it MUST be true.

We're not going to do the research for you.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Both are true, actually.

No clear as to why a 65 healthy person gets to be in front on an 80 year due to what Ward they live in.

Other then to vote for Bowser.

Ward 3 can sign up on Friday. Stop lying.

Ward 3 has fewer sign up days than other wards. Where is the lie?

Ward 3 sucked up all the vaccine already. They can wait until things even out a bit.

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

But that’s because POC and poor people don’t live as long, at least partly due to systemic racism.

Really, I haven't seen those studies, only pronouncements that it MUST be true.

Anonymous wrote:Obesity is not a risk factor - it is a life choice - like smoking.

Cancer - risk factor. Autoimmune deficiency - risk factor.

Not staying up on the obesity research, are you?

Most of the seniors in Ward 4 and Ward 5 are Black or Latinx too.

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined.

"DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014):

Ward 1 9,441
Ward 2 11,058
Ward 3 17,581
Ward 4 16,771
Ward 5 15,204
Ward 6 13,848
Ward 7 14,200
Ward 8. 9,589

Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. "

Are you still waiting, pp?

Just doing some math to respond to this person. Was this you?

ward 3 has TWICE as many elderly. this is very basic statistics, nothing fancy

Ward 3 doesn't have TWICE as many elderly as ANY other ward, much less EVERY other ward.

Ward 3 has 16 percent of the elderly population and yet has received 26 percent of the vaccines.

So STFU, WARD 3.

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Anonymous wrote:POC don't want the vaccine in higher numbers than whites. Personal responsibility much?

Next.

Then there should be no problem giving them first access, since according to you they don’t want it. There will be plenty left for you.

"They" have first access on a sizable number of days of the week. What's your issue?
I notice DC is slipping down in the vaccine distribution efficiency rankings...wonder if it's because we are tying ourselves in to pretzels over this kind of stuff. How about first come first serve, drive through or walkup at RFK? We have 700,000 people. Should be able to get it done for ALL who want a vaccine faster than we are, no?

From the Post commenting on W Virginia's success, where they "kept it stupid":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/states-vaccine-rollout/2021/02/03/eae671a0-656f-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html

“People think we’re the poorest or most backward or whatever it may be,” Justice said in an interview. “But West Virginia has become the diamond in the rough.”

The state’s record has won it accolades from public health professionals as well as notice from the Biden administration. Just 90 minutes after the new president was sworn in last month, Justice, a Republican, said he had a call from the administration’s new coronavirus coordinator, Jeff Zients, inquiring whether West Virginia’s success might offer lessons outside the Mountain State.

Tinglong Dai, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s business and nursing schools, said it certainly does.

In many states, Dai said, governors have delegated the vaccination process to a web of underfunded county health departments, along with hospitals, pharmacies, HMOs and doctor’s offices. Each has devised its own sign-up system and made its own rules for who can get vaccinated and when.


West Virginia has sought to avoid that — where possible — by creating a uniform statewide process.

Anonymous wrote:POC don't want the vaccine in higher numbers than whites. Personal responsibility much?

Next.

Then there should be no problem giving them first access, since according to you they don’t want it. There will be plenty left for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined.

"DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014):

Ward 1 9,441
Ward 2 11,058
Ward 3 17,581
Ward 4 16,771
Ward 5 15,204
Ward 6 13,848
Ward 7 14,200
Ward 8. 9,589

Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. "

Are you still waiting, pp?

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

The most of any Ward. Twice as many as Wards 1 and 8 individually, and equal to Ward 1 and 8 combined.

"DC’s 2019-2022 State Plan on Aging, showing distribution by ward of people over the age of 60 by (apparently as of 2014):

Ward 1 9,441
Ward 2 11,058
Ward 3 17,581
Ward 4 16,771
Ward 5 15,204
Ward 6 13,848
Ward 7 14,200
Ward 8. 9,589

Based on this, Ward 3 has the highest population over 60, followed by wards 4, 5, 7, 6, 2, 8 and 1, in that order. "

Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to see the data that shows half of all DC senior citizens live in Ward 3.

...still waiting....