Yale epidemiologist: CT has its COVID vaccine priorities backwards
Kasturi Pananjady, CTMirror.org
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Lori Trippjacinto of Community Health Centers delivers vaccination shots at mass vaccination center on the former Pratt & Whitney Runway at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. March 1, 2021.Patrick Sikes / For Hearst Connecticut Media
At press conference after press conference, Gov. Ned Lamont has set the stage how he wants Connecticut to be evaluated on its COVID-19 vaccine rollout by touting the percentage of people vaccinated as a key measure of its success. By that metric, Connecticut has been a national leader, consistently in the top five states, according to federal data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data: Mass COVID vaccination sites not reaching vulnerable areas they are supposed to target
Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
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Aerial images show the 10-lane set up for Covid-19 vaccinations on the former Pratt & Whitney Runway at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. March 1, 2021.Patrick Sikes / For Hearst Connecticut Media
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven.
Dan Haar: Break all vaccine rules to end the racial gap we can t measure
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Adam Rinko, right, emergency management director for the city of Waterbury, shows the vaccine storage room to Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz and Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Feb. 19, 2021, at a vaccination clinic at a magnet school run by the city and St. Mary s Hospital.Dan Haar/Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Amos Smith, CEO of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, at an online forum on COVID-19 vaccine access, with a tropical vacation backdrop.Screen ShotShow MoreShow Less
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Among the steady stream of people exiting Stamford Hospital Friday night with fresh COVID vaccines in their arms, most of them white, a 71-year-old immigrant from Trinidad named Odette counted herself as fortunate.
State to close supermax prison, Northern Correctional Institution
Kelan Lyons, CTMirror.org
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A sign at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers.File photo.
Northern Correctional Institution, the state’s controversial “supermax” prison located in Somers, will close by July 1, the Department of Correction announced to its staff on Monday.
The closure is the first since Enfield Correctional Institution was shuttered on Jan. 23, 2018. There are 5,000 fewer people in state correctional facilities since then. The most precipitous decline has been since the onset of the pandemic; there are 3,377 fewer people in prison or jail today than on March 1.
“I have been transparent about my intentions to close facilities, ever since [Gov. Ned] Lamont announced that I was his choice to be the next commissioner,” Commissioner Designate Angel Quiros told DOC employees in a memo Monday. “The decision to close Northern can be largely attributed to the signi