State officials also encouraged Connecticut residents to get a booster shot ahead of the holidays.
Vaccination
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Religious exemptions to COVID vaccine more common among state agency workers
Health care workers in state agencies are claiming exemptions to vaccine mandates at a higher rate than workers outside government.
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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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Lamont: State employees responding to vaccination deadline
Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday he believes most state employees will report evidence of vaccination or testing before midnight.
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Vaccinated? Connecticut schools now asking teachers for proof
School districts are required to record the vaccination status of all school employees, but not many have done it yet.
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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.
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As mass vaccination centers take the lead in the COVID race, the push is on to reach the most vulnerable
While mass vaccination sites have helped overall vaccination rates, they have not reached the state’s most vulnerable populations.
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State goes over 100,000 dose mark in vaccinations of long-term care residents and staff
At the beginning of this week, almost all nursing home residents have had at least one dose of vaccine.
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More than 75,000 COVID vaccines administered in CT, among top rates in US
Lamont says an “overwhelming” number of nursing home residents received the vaccine.
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Proponents of bill ending Connecticut’s religious exemption to vaccines eye special session for vote
Lawmakers are also considering an amendment that would bar families from claiming a religious exemption to a future COVID-19 vaccine.
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Lawmakers debate ‘grandfathering’ unvaccinated children in effort to repeal religious exemption
To give the bill a better chance of passing, proponents are exploring ways to make it less contentious, including allowing some unvaccinated students to stay in school.
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DPH commissioner finds her voice on immunizations
Gov. Ned Lamont promised Monday to take the lead on the repeal of religious exemptions for school-age vaccinations.
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Lawyer for Bristol couple fights to keep school vaccination data private
The couple’s lawyer argued that school-level immunization data would be used as “a scare tactic to try to bully people into vaccinating.”
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Lawyers for state say school-level vaccination data won’t be released until October
School officials have until Sept. 6 to report immunization data from 2018-19 to the health department. After that, the health department will process and sort the data, which is expected to take weeks.
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No vote to end religious vaccine exemptions this year
Lawmakers abandoned their quest this year because they couldn’t reach agreement on what to do with unvaccinated children already in school.