Advocates say some developmentally disabled people have struggled to get vaccinated. A federal grant is paying to address the problem.
COVID-19
The Connecticut Mirror is covering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in Connecticut. Read our most recent stories and in-depth reporting below.
Posted inHealth
Connecticut hospitals are requiring staff to get vaccinated against COVID. Will other health providers follow?
The effort comes as the highly contagious Delta variant gains a stronger foothold in Connecticut and elsewhere.
Posted inHealth
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.
Posted inPolitics
CT legislators to consider extension of emergency. This time, the public is invited.
Lawmakers return on July 12 to consider an extension of the governor’s powers to manage the pandemic.
Posted inHealth
As mass vaccination sites close, focus turns to mobile clinics to reach targeted groups
As vaccination rates have slowed, mass vaccination sites have closed while the state shifted its focus to smaller clinics.
Posted inHousing
As end of COVID eviction moratorium nears, rental relief going slowly in CT
Only 2,921 payments have been by UniteCT, a COVID assistance program criticized as overly complicated and technically flawed.
Posted inHealth
To vaccinate young adults in CT, Lamont turns to the concert scene
Jim Koplik has promoted the Stones, McCartney and Springsteen. Let’s see what he can do with J&J, Moderna and Pfizer.
Posted inHealth
More COVID vaccines are being wasted as demand drops
Nearly a third of all wasted COVID vaccine doses in CT were lost since the end of May.
Posted inHealth
CSCU board votes to require COVID vaccines for students in the fall
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus this fall.
Posted inJustice
State reaches deal to improve education, mental services for incarcerated youths
The settlement deals with three topics: education, access to mental health and cell confinement in medical isolation and quarantine units.
Posted inNews
Lamont announces $7.7 million expansion of Connecticut Youth Employment Program
The program assists youth in their search for work and connects them with a vast network of organizations.
Posted inHealth
‘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.
Posted inHealth
CDC reports rare breakthrough COVID cases among fully vaccinated
The number of breakthrough cases represents (.01%) of the 101 million people who were fully vaccinated on April 30.
Posted inNews
No ‘mission accomplished,’ but Lamont suspends COVID briefings
With infections comfortably low and vaccination rates enviously high, Gov. Ned Lamont bid farewell Thursday to his twice-a-week briefings.
Posted inNews
Proposal requiring higher staffing levels in nursing homes clears Senate
Under the proposal, nursing home staff are required to provide at least three hours of direct care per resident daily.