Nearly three quarters of eligible CT residents expected to be vaccinated by end of April
Officials are not tracking how many people receive accelerated access to vaccine
Beth Wright, kindergarten teacher in New Haven, gets vaccinated at Wilbur Cross High School.
State officials expect nearly three quarters of Connecticut residents 16 and older to have received a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this month.
Eligibility opened Thursday to all people regardless of age. Since Thursday, 50,000 residents ages 16 to 44 – the newest group granted access – received a first dose of the vaccine.
“We’re going to be getting some very high numbers of the percentage of the total Connecticut population vaccinated by the end of the month,” said Josh Geballe, the state’s chief operating officer. “We should be at about 60% of people having received their first dose. Keep in mind, that still includes a significant portion of the population younger than 16, who are
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Volunteers slowly filed into the main lobby of Fair Haven Community Health Center on Grand Avenue in New Haven. They checked in at the door and then moved along to different stations for supplies.
In this case, that would be clipboards, bags of new surgical masks, hand sanitizer and T-shirts that say Vaccinate Fair Haven or Vacunate Fair Haven.
“So the masks are to hand out as they’re knocking on doors, the hand sanitizer is for the volunteers to sort of keep up on that front,” said Rose Pudlin, who oversees the health center’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Wilbur Cross High School.
Eligibility expanded to people aged 55 and older on Monday, along with educators and childcare workers. Beginning [Monday], all Connecticut residents between the ages of 55-64 can make appointments and receive COVID-19 vaccinations, said Gov. Ned Lamont. PreK-12 school staff and childcare professionals in Connecticut are also eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations beginning [Monday]. Individuals in these groups will receive information from their school administrators and employers on where/when they can be vaccinated.
More people in Connecticut are now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Lamont acknowledged that the newly eligible may not be able to make appointments immediately due to limited supplies.
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