Trumbull Day festival will return this summer
Donald Eng
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Trumbull Day 2019 at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., on Saturday June 29, 2019. Trumbull Day is a fun-filled family event with food, vendors, carnival rides and games, children’s entertainment, a main stage featuring local bands and fireworks.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Trumbull Day 2019 at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., on Saturday June 29, 2019. Trumbull Day is a fun-filled family event with food, vendors, carnival rides and games, children’s entertainment, a main stage featuring local bands and fireworks.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
As COVID positivity surges, data shows vaccine supply could surpass demand by May
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Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine wait on a table at Hartford HealthCare’s new mass vaccination clinic on the west campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. March 10, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Danbury teachers and school district staff get their Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at a vaccine clinic at Rogers Park Middle School on March 6. More than 900 teachers and staff received the vaccine during the two-day clinic.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Megan Murphy, Emergency Management Director for the Town of Trumbull, fills syringes with the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on March 4.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Experts: COVID vaccine priority still uncertain for preexisting conditions
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vialNorwalk Hospital
People with high-risk medical conditions would be allowed to jump the line when the coronavirus vaccine registration opens to everyone over the age of 16 on April 5, but how that will work is still unclear.
Though Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday the state will accelerate access for those with preexisting conditions, which medical ailments will count and whether it can be handled on a unified, statewide level is still an open question, according to health experts.
“Nothing has been fully fleshed out,” said Ohm Deshpande, vice president for population health and a physician leader for Yale New Haven Health’s vaccination program. “Our goal is to come to some sort of consensus that is not at the level of a health provider or health system. We’d like to be working along the same guidelines.”
Red Cross: 5.5% of CT blood donations tested positive for COVID
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A map showing the prevalence of antibodies in Red Cross blood donations in the northeast.Submitted/Red Cross
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About 5.5 percent of all the Red Cross blood donations from healthy, unvaccinated Connecticut residents since June have tested positive for COVID antibodies, the organization said this week.
Overall, the Red Cross tested 3 million blood donations, including 82,353 in Connecticut, between mid-June 2020 and mid-February.
The national positivity rate was 6.6 percent over that time, higher than Connecticut’s average, suggesting the spread of the coronavirus was better contained in this state than in others. In fact, the Northeast had a lower positivity rate than other U.S. regions.
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Currently Reading There is something very wrong here : Mayor questions handling of sex assault accusations against fire captain, police sergeant
Brian Gioiele and Don Eng
March 15, 2021
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Echo Hose Hook and Ladder Company in Shelton. Photo courtesy of Echo Hose.Contributed / Contributed
SHELTON Mayor Mark Lauretti says he’s “dumbfounded” why prosecutors are not pursing criminal charges against two volunteer city firefighters who, according to a police report, have been accused of sexually and physically assaulting a woman.
Echo Hose Fire Capt. John Scollin and volunteer firefighter Matthew Perkowski who is also a Trumbull police sergeant were suspended last week pending an internal investigation into the alleged assault, which police said occurred on Sept. 6, 2020.