Consul General Jorge Islas López speaks Saturday at Cornerstone Community Church on West Avenue. (City of Norwalk)
NORWALK, Conn. The Consulate General of Mexico came to Norwalk to help get local citizens vaccinated.
About 50 doses were administered at the special COVID-19 clinic held Saturday by the City, Consulate General of Mexico in New York, Norwalk Community Health Center, and Cornerstone Community Church, a City press release said. Since Friday, there were 23 new positive cases reported in Norwalk, bringing the total to 11,416. There have been no deaths reported since April 27.
As of Wednesday, more than 53% of Norwalk residents had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccination, including more than 48% of residents 15-44 years of age; more than 73% of residents 45-64 years of age; and 99% of residents 65 years of age and older, the City reported. Gov. Ned Lamont announced Saturday that more than 70% of all adults in the state received at least one dose of a COVID-19
Jimmey Shuler gets a COVID-19 vaccination in early March at Brien McMahon High School. (Harold F. Cobin)
Connecticut’s public health department on Tuesday urged medical providers to halt use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine across the state, following recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
Norwalk has paused its use of the J&J vaccine, on advice of federal and state officials. “Norwalk Health Department vaccine clinics this week, including tomorrow at Bow Tie Cinemas, will continue uninterrupted, as the Moderna vaccine will be administered,” the City said in a statement.
Zoning Commission Chairman Lou Schulman questions the lighting plan for the Brien MccMahon High School softball field, shown in a photo rendering by Stantec.
NORWALK, Conn. Somehow, the discussion stemming from years of parental public pleading for an state-of-the-art girls softball field at Brien McMahon High School did not reach the people who would be most affected by the sought-after changes, the people who live across the street.
The Norwalk Zoning Commission has therefore delayed its decision on the proposed field and its 60-foot-tall light poles. Zoners have kept their public hearing open, suggesting that the City show the neighbors other fields, to support the claim that new technology keeps light from spreading to surrounding properties. They also said they wanted to hear from the Board of Education.
Richard Lemons, executive director for the Connecticut Center for School Change, gives an update on the effort to create a new strategic operating plan for Norwalk Public Schools, Tuesday at the Board of Education meeting.
NORWALK, Conn. The dates for high school graduations and middle school promotion ceremonies are set, but the exact number of people who will be allowed at each are still up in the air, Norwalk Public Schools Superintendent Alexandra Estrella said at the Board of Education meeting on Tuesday.
The ceremonies will be most likely outdoors, she said.
“The numbers are going to depend on the cases around that time,” she said. “Right now, we have restrictions in terms of how large the groups can be. And we’re also even trying to organize prom and taking these numbers into account. So it’s a day-by-day situation right now.”
Opinion: A crisis that predates COVID
Robert M. Brown III
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Mallory Bates, a nurse at Norwalk Hospital, center, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Elizabeth Jackson during a Norwalk Health Department mass vaccination clinic for people 45 years and older at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk on March 20. Looking on is Elizabeth’s granddaughter Jessica Jackson.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
COVID-19 has exacted a devastating toll on this nation, especially in communities of color and low-income communities. Prior to COVID-19, and in Connecticut, many in these communities were faced with disproportionately high levels of low-wage work, underemployment and unemployment, economic instability, food insecurity, exposure to environmental pollution, comorbidities and persistent stressors upon health. In 2021, these harsh truths are alarmingly glaring.