The order goes into effect Saturday. Nursing homes will have COVID tests available on site.
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More than 100 Hartford HealthCare employees out of work after refusing vaccine
109 workers at Hartford HealthCare, 0.3% of its workforce, have left the organization after refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
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A week after staff vaccination deadline, about half of CT nursing homes had rates under 96%
At least 98 nursing homes had staff COVID vaccination rates under 96% six days after the vaccination mandate deadline.
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Lamont ups pressure on state employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations
Connecticut has begun to suspend permanent state employees who are not vaccinated or being tested for COVID-19.
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15% of community college students have non-medical vaccine exemptions
Nearly 15% of the students enrolled at Connecticut community colleges have received non-medical exemptions from the system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a rate that administrators suggested could be brought down with efforts to educate students about the vaccine. Of the 37,116 students enrolled at the state’s community colleges this semester, 71% are fully or partially vaccinated; 5,479 […]
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Newest state workers face termination over COVID-19 mandates
Probationary state employees will be the first suspended over Gov. Ned Lamont’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-test mandates.
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CT doctor accused of mailing vaccine exemptions to anyone who asked
The state suspended the medical license of a physician accused of mailing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines without examining patients.
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As deadline approaches, some CT police departments still don’t have body cameras
It remains unclear how many municipal police officers are wearing body cameras and how many still need them.
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Lamont to unions: Broader vaccine requirements may be coming
Gov. Ned Lamont recently warned labor unions he’s weighing a vaccination requirement for state employees.
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J&J vaccine ‘pause’ complicates campus clinics, but the big question remains: Should colleges require vaccinations?
The COVID vaccines are authorized for “emergency use,” making the legality of mandates murky
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CT lawmakers blast Trump move on employer birth-control mandate
WASHINGTON — To Connecticut’s Democratic lawmakers, President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that businesses include birth control benefits in the health care policies that cover their workers amounted to fighting words. “I’m sick and tired of Republicans trying to take away women’s health care,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
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GOP gives House members proposal to repeal, replace the ACA
WASHINGTON — The proposal, which will be considered later this month in a series of hearings, includes replacement of the law’s subsidies that help people buy insurance with tax credits based on a person’s age, not income, and elimination of federally mandated basic benefits in an insurance plan.