Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
A health care worker with Community Health Center, Inc. prepares to give the Pfizer vaccine to a client at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic. The 10-lane clinic opened Jan. 18 at the former Pratt & Whitney airport in East Hartford.
In its first week, the sprawling vaccine operation now underway at the former Pratt & Whitney airport in East Hartford had inoculated more than 2,800 Connecticut residents against the deadly coronavirus. Its organizers have lofty plans to accelerate the program as the state directs more people to that site for appointments.
But even as the effort gathers momentum and other mass vaccination sites are planned, there is no formal plan to pay for it. No contracts have been signed, and organizer Mark Masselli said he is relying on the word of state officials that payment will come later.
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.