BY MICHAEL PUFFER REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
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Waterbury Hospital ICU nurse Monica Erwin, right, gets her COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Martha Calabrese when staff received their vaccines at the hospital. Jim Shannon Republican-American
WATERBURY — Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday announced plans to spend $40 million to help 25 hospitals struggling to maintain the costs of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This funding recognizes the front-line role Connecticut hospitals and their dedicated employees have played throughout this pandemic,” Lamont said. “It is not an overstatement to say this role has been heroic and continues to be indispensable as we all work together to defeat the virus.”