An 8% increase in state aid to cities and towns is augmented by $3.2 billion in federal pandemic aid.
Kasturi Pananjady
Kasturi was CT Mirror’s data reporter. She is a May 2020 graduate of the Columbia Journalism School’s master’s program in data journalism and holds a degree in comparative literature from Brown University, where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. Prior to joining CT Mirror, Kasturi interned for publications in India.
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‘There’s a dividing line’ — Vaccination rates trace socioeconomic boundaries in CT
Public health officials are struggling to get vaccines across socioeconomic dividing lines in urban areas across the state.
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Does absentee voting increase turnout? There’s no easy answer
Among eligible CT voters in 2016 and 2020, 400,000 more voted in 2020.
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DPH: 242 breakthrough cases of COVID among fully vaccinated CT residents
Breakthrough cases account for 0.02% of vaccinated residents; three have died
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The risks of getting a J&J shot: What you need to know
Connecticut residents will soon have more ways to get the single-shot vaccine. But will the “pause” have scared people away?
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Can federally qualified health centers solve CT’s vaccine equity woes?
FQHCs serve many priority ZIP codes, but reaching residents has been a process of trial and error
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The J&J vaccine: What we know, what we don’t know, and where we go from here
Officials ‘paused’ administration of the vaccine on Tuesday
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CT’s prison population shrunk during the pandemic. Will it last?
The historic declines coincide with a demand for equity as racial disparities in the incarcerated populate have widened during COVID-19.
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The pandemic’s effect on the housing market helped some — but others are left behind.
Across Connecticut, lower-income families are facing more housing challenges. Federal aid might help, but the problems have deep roots.
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Gov. Ned Lamont says Connecticut’s age-based COVID vaccine rollout is saving more lives — But is it?
The unsatisfying answer is that the data are limited in what they can show, particularly now.
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Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID
Communities that were already struggling with poverty before the pandemic were hit particularly hard when the jobs vanished.
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Why an epidemiologist thinks Connecticut has its COVID vaccine priorities backwards
By rolling out COVID vaccine through an age-based process, the state will effectively de-prioritize younger adults with co-morbidities.
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Will getting teachers vaccinated get students back in school full time? It might not be that easy
Districts will have to convince parents and students that in-person learning is safe and that students won’t bring COVID-19 home.
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Black and Hispanic residents continue to be vaccinated against COVID at lower rates than white residents
Among those 65 and older, the rate of vaccination for white residents was 39%, compared to 21% for Black residents.
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Eligible Black and Hispanic residents getting COVID vaccine at about half the rate as eligible white residents
Of the 75+ age group, 13% of Black residents, 18% of Hispanics and 30% of whites have received first doses.