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In this week s Minute with the Mayor, Milford Mayor Ben Blake joins Health Director Deepa Joseph at Milford s COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic to discuss ways to schedule your COVID-19 vaccination appointment.
Mayor Blake says about the vaccinations, The demand is not keeping up with the supply.
In the video, Joseph offers some tips for scheduling your COVID vaccination appointment. In addition, Joseph says that Walmart in West Haven and New Haven will be opening up vaccination slots this week.
Learn more about the COVID vaccine here.
Call Connecticut’s Vaccine Appointment Assist Line at 877-918-2224, seven days a week from 8:00am to 8:00pm for scheduling at select sites.
Milford health director expects COVID vaccine later this month
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Milford Health Director Deepa Joseph believes safe-practicing guidelines key to Phase 2.Contributed photo
MILFORD According to the Milford Health Dept., COVID-19 vaccines should be available in Milford later this month. Deepa Joseph,the city health director, announced while speaking virtually on Milford Mayor Ben Blake’s Minute with the Mayor / COVID 19 Vaccine video released to residents on Tuesday.
“Based on what we have heard from the federal and state government, we will start seeing the vaccine come into Milford later in December,” Joseph said.
According to Joseph, there will be two main phases of vaccine distribution.
A little cheer into a year that had so little : Decorated street signs lift holiday spirit
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Several hundred people decorated their street signs as part of the Milford ChallengeContributedShow MoreShow Less
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Morgan Hughes stands next to the stop sign she and her mother Keisha Martin-Velez decorated at the intersection of Jewett Street and Root Ave.ContributedShow MoreShow Less
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A street sign is decorated for the holidays in Milford, Conn. on Wednesday, December 9, 2020.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
It’s become so widespread even Milford Mayor Ben Blake is weighing in on the holiday happenings. We need this at this point we need to do whatever it takes to make sure a smile is on everyone’s face, said Blake.
Bob Asmussen and Monica Bartolommeo live in the Milford community and love the holidays. The two decorated their street sign along with their entire house and they say this year everyone in the neighborhood is getting in the spirit.
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A festive home in Milford, Conn. You can’t even go to the store and buy any more lights or anything everything is out of stock because everyone’s still the street sign, said Asmussen. He described the joy he sees it brings to the community, saying, We see people slowing down can we see the cell phone snapping it’s nice we don’t do it really for anything besides trying to bring the spirit to us both of our kids and everybody in the community and all the kids around here.