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.
Construction begins on missing link of Norwalk River Valley Trail
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Norwalk River Valley Trail Executive Director Beth Merrill chats with Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling during the ground breaking for a new mile long section of the trail, known as the Missing Link, in Norwalk Conn. on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The new section connects Union Park to New Canaan Avenue.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Construction of a new section of the Norwalk River Valley Trail is set to begin in Norwalk Conn. on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The new section connects Union Park to New Canaan Avenue.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Lamont to speed up eligibility in CT COVID vaccination plan that inspired president s national timeline
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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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Gina Kelly, right, and Gina Christakos, fill syringes with COVID-19 vaccine 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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A Connecticut COVID vaccination plan that partly “inspired” the president’s national timeline for all American adults to be eligible for the shot could be sped up even more, Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday.