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Lamont: Super-infectious strain threatens efforts to contain COVID
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Gov. Ned Lamont, in a file photo with U.S. Sen. Richard BlumenthalJohn Minchillo / Associated Press
More cases of the highly infectious COVID strain are threatening the state’s efforts to contain the disease, while older adults are still struggling to make appointments to get vaccinated, the governor said Monday.
However, Gov. Ned Lamont predicted all residents 75 and over could be vaccinated within three weeks.
“We are racing to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as we can ahead of what could be this super-infectious strain,” Lamont said after health officials identified four new cases bringing the statewide total to eight of the highly contagious United Kingdom variant.
“I’m a nurse by profession so just to see that we are now going out to the community and getting people on the safe track, getting them vaccines, it’s wonderful to see,” said Appiah, who is a site leader at the Athletic Center site.
Bond says the location was chosen because it’s part of their public health preparedness plan.
“We are excited this is an ideal location it’s central to the city, it’s off the bus line,” said Bond.
In New Haven, a second location is now open at the Lanman Center on Ashman Street. From the early days of COVID testing to new vaccination sites, health equity and access has been a goal.
Published January 20, 2021 •
Updated on January 21, 2021 at 1:49 pm
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Yale New Haven Health began rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations for those in Phase 1B on Wednesday.
The health group started giving COVID-19 vaccines to those 75 and older at six locations in North Haven, Orange, Old Saybrook, Trumbull, Fairfield and Greenwich on Wednesday.
There will be two additional locations Friday - one at Yale s West Campus in West Haven and another at Yale s Lanman Center in New Haven. They also have plans to turn the Floyd Little Field House at Hillhouse High School in New Haven into a vaccination clinic, and hope to open that location Monday.
Hall of Famer Floyd Little has died, but in New Haven his name lives on
When Hillhouse H.S. named the athletic center after him, he was thrilled and delighted to let it be known how proud I am to be from New Haven. Author: Associated Press, Bill Flood Published: 8:39 PM EST January 2, 2021 Updated: 2:17 AM EST January 3, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Floyd Little, the New Haven native who became a star running back who starred at Syracuse and for the Denver Broncos, has died. He was 78.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame said he died Friday night at his home in Nevada. No cause was given.