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Connecticut was anticipating 98,000 vaccine doses this week between Pfizer and Moderna s vaccine candidate, but that number has been reduced to 86,000. (Shutterstock)
RIDGEFIELD, CT The town is making plans to inoculate residents with the coronavirus vaccine, First Selectman Rudy Marconi has announced. Some towns are taking a different approach, but we feel the best way to serve our community is to make sure we can meet all expectations by being prepared, Marconi said in a news release Wednesday. This means that delivery locations, vaccinators, notification systems and information on how to make appointments are all being established in advance of the rollout.
Written by Town of Ridgefield
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The town established vaccine team led by our Director of Health, Ed Briggs is well into the process of working out all logistics. Some towns are taking a different approach, but we feel the best way to serve our community is to make sure we can meet all expectations by being prepared.
This means that delivery locations, vaccinators, notification systems and information on how to make appointments are all being established in advance of the rollout.
• Connecticut is in Phase 1a of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, which includes healthcare personnel, long term care residents and first responders at risk of exposure. The State of Connecticut determines the prioritization and timeline for vaccine rollout and will inform the Ridgefield Health Department when doses will be available for each category. A small number of Ridgefield’s frontline workers and first responders have begun receiving the vaccine.
COVID cluster at Ridgefield s Farmingville school reaches 20
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A COVID-19 cluster at Farmingville Elementary School has grown to 20 confirmed cases since Thanksgiving week.
School officials were counting nine cases early Friday, which grew to 14 over the weekend, and by Monday night was up to 20.
“Several of these cases are potentially due to exposures at school,” Superintendent of Schools Susie Da Silva said in one several communications that went out over the weekend.
“We are closing the FES building to staff and recommending that anybody who was in the FES building since Monday, December 7 closely monitor their symptoms and be tested for COVID-19,” Da Silva said.
Farmingville COVID cases prompt Ridgefield question session
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Farmingville Elementary School in Ridgefield has an apparnet COVID-19 cluster that was up to 10 recent cases Friday.Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media
RIDGEFIELD The COVID-19 cluster at Farmingville Elementary School now up to 10 recent cases has prompted school officials to identify in-school exposure as a possible cause, recommend testing for people who have been in the Farmingville building, and plan a live question-and-answer session Monday at 1 p.m.
“There have been 10 cases of COVID-19 in the Farmingville Elementary School building in a short period of time,” Superintendent of Schools Susie Da Silva wrote in her weekly email to the school community Friday evening.
Aaron Crook Answers Questions Regarding FES COVID Cases Written by Aaron Crook, COVID-19 Health and Safety Compliance Liaison
Nine FES community members have tested positive for COVID-19 since Tuesday, December 1st. Five of which are staff members, and four are students. Two of the cases came from cohorts where there was a recent positive of COVID-19, which raises the possibility of in-school transmission within the FES building.
We have received questions as a result of these recent cases, two of which we want to take the opportunity to address in this communication:
Why is the FES community learning of positive cases days after the person has exposed others in the building?