Monthly
Yearly
Eligible Black and Hispanic residents getting COVID vaccine at about half the rate as eligible white residents
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
Madeline Fall, 25, of Vernon, receives the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from Lizmary Reyes, LPN, at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic administered by Community Health Center, Inc. “I’m the first one in my family to get this so I kind of feel like the guinea pig,” said Fall, a health care worker.
Concerns that Black residents are getting vaccinated for COVID-19 at a rate far below that of white residents were borne out Wednesday with the release of state data and a CT Mirror analysis shows that Hispanic residents are also lagging behind.
The clinics are by appointment only and will be free of charge, the city says
Credit: AP
Educator John Cormier of Norwich, Conn., receives a shot from LPN Lizmary Reyes, right, on opening day of the Connecticut s largest COVID-19 Vaccination Drive-Through Clinic Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, in East Hartford, Conn. The former Pratt & Whitney Runway has been converted into a ten-lane, drive-through COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Clinic, with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being administered by Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC). Vaccinations are by appointment only to eligible individuals in Phase 1a and 1b through Connecticut s 211 system or the CDC s Vaccine Administration Management System. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Coronavirus live updates: As US death toll approaches 400K, new variants threaten to add to struggle; Americans trust in vaccines grows John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
How viruses like COVID-19 mutate, and how they impact vaccine development
Replay Video UP NEXT
The U.S. on Monday stood on the brink of 400,000 reported coronavirus deaths, almost double the total of the next most severely hit nation and still mourning more than 20,000 deaths per week. The U.S. has added almost 4 million new infections this month, and the emergence of new variants only figures to add to that total.
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
An electronic sign directs people to an area to wait if having an adverse reaction to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic administered by Community Health Center, Inc.
With ambitious plans of vaccinating 7,000 to 10,000 people each week, organizers of a massive inoculation effort at the former Pratt & Whitney airport in East Hartford opened the sprawling operation Monday to the first of what is expected to be hundreds of thousands of people in the coming months.
The “soft” opening was expected to draw 450 to 500 residents receiving their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Cars idled on the old runway Monday as eager employees directed them to the proper lanes. As the enterprise ramps up, organizers expect to vaccinate 1,000 or more people a day at the East Hartford site.