Another 25 workers are on unpaid leave.
COVID-19 vaccine
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CT preparing strategies to roll out COVID vaccines to children
Connecticut’s Department of Public Health has reached out to 1,100 providers across the state.
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California is mandating the COVID vaccine for kids. Could Connecticut be next?
Connecticut’s new public health commissioner supports a vaccine mandate for children once it receives full FDA approval. She’s not alone.
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State investigating how many long-term care workers sought COVID vaccine exemptions from embattled doctor
Officials are investigating how many long-term care workers got COVID-19 vaccine exemptions from a doctor accused of handing them out.
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The Pfizer COVID vaccine now has full approval. Will that mean more mandates in CT?
“This should further reassure those who decided to wait,” Deidre Gifford, Connecticut’s acting commissioner of public health, said.
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UConn issues COVID vaccine mandate for all employees
The mandate includes employees at UConn Health and at the university’s five campuses.
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Special clinics use federal funds — and new methods — to vaccinate the state’s developmentally disabled
Advocates say some developmentally disabled people have struggled to get vaccinated. A federal grant is paying to address the problem.
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Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center nurses make steep climb to vaccinate seafarers
They put on pink hard hats and climb aboard to vaccinate merchant sailors from all over the world.
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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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Clinics across Connecticut to start taking walk-ups for COVID vaccine
Dozens of clinics will begin taking walk-ups on Tuesday
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New Britain residents weren’t getting vaccinated. So city officials got creative.
The city’s efforts are a microcosm of what is happening across the country as officials struggle to vaccinate vulnerable residents.
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More than 1,800 people could get vaccinated at home under new DPH program
Residents who wish to receive a vaccine at home must assert they are physically unable to get to a clinic.
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State outlines medical conditions for special access to COVID vaccine; clinics planned for high school students
The state is trying to provide speedier vaccine access for people with five medical conditions.
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‘The clouds are starting to open:’ Residents and staff remember hardship, contemplate future one year after COVID hit Connecticut’s nursing homes
Grace Davis was born during the Spanish flu and outlived two husbands. At 101 years old, she was still going strong when COVID-19 began its lethal spread through Connecticut’s nursing homes. Then in May, she caught the disease. “At first my symptoms were like what the flu would have been,” she said in a Zoom […]
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At an urban church, a prayer for greater COVID-19 vaccine access and outreach
The campaign to vaccinate Connecticut’s poorest streets came to a Bridgeport neighborhood where 25% of residents live in poverty.