There s a dividing line - Vaccination rates trace socioeconomic boundaries in CT
Kasturi Pananjady and Dave Altimari, CTmirror.org
June 3, 2021
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COVID-19 vaccination and observation area at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven in March 2021.Yehyun Kim / CTMirror.org
Liany Arroyo, the director of the Hartford Health Department, spends a lot of her time studying neighborhoods in Hartford and finding patterns in their vaccination rates.
The downtown areas of Hartford and those that lie to the west of the city show higher vaccination rates in general. Other neighborhoods have sharply lower rates.
“The West End is a more affluent neighborhood,” Arroyo said. “There’s a dividing line there.”
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Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Mary Leach, of Litchfield, registers at the observation room after receiving the first dose of the Moderna vaccine. People who were vaccinated had to stay in the observation room for 15 minutes to ensure that no side effect develops.
Residents of Bloomfield and West Hartford will soon be able to schedule their vaccine appointments through a phone call to the local health department as the district becomes the latest to figure out a way to avoid the online federal vaccination system known as VAMS that has vexed many senior citizens.
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Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
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Thomas Juliusburger, of Stamford, receives the Pfizer vaccince shot from nurse Justin Leas, during Community Health Center s mass drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic held at the parking lot of Lord & Taylor in Stamford, Conn., on Wednesday Feb. 3, 2021.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
Residents of Bloomfield and West Hartford will soon be able to schedule their vaccine appointments through a phone call to the local health department as the district becomes the latest to figure out a way to avoid the online federal vaccination system known as VAMS that has vexed many senior citizens.