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By Paul Hughes, Republican-American State officials are responding to a renewed COVID-19 threat in Connecticut nursing homes from newly arrived residents who had not been vaccinated before they were admitted. The steps that have been taken in recent weeks include deploying teams from the Connecticut National Guard to assist nursing homes vaccinate newcomers who had not been immunized against the coronavirus yet. State officials said the situation is under control. Nursing homes were a COVID hotspot in Connecticut. An outside consultant concluded in a report last year that the state’s emergency response planning overlooked nursing homes at the start of the coronavirus outbreak a year ago. ....
Local first responders, nursing home residents and staff getting inoculated Lisa DeTulio, a registered nurse, gives Beacon Hose Co. No. 1 firefighter and EMT Brayden Alves a COVID-19 vaccination shot at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury on Jan. 7. -STEVEN VALENTI/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN The vaccination of nursing home residents and staff as well as first responders in the battle against COVID-19 is underway. Glendale Center and Beacon Brook Health Center, both in Naugatuck, have partnered with CVS to administer the approved Pfizer vaccines to their staff and residents. The nursing homes began to vaccinate their residents and staff in late December. Glendale Center completed its first vaccination clinic on Dec. 27, according to Glendale Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Richard Feifer. ....
By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer Waterbury Hospital clinical pharmacist Fabio Caetano shows the COVID-19 vaccine as staff began to administer vaccines Dec. 15 at the hospital. -JIM SHANNON/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN The wait for COVID-19 vaccines is over, though it will be a while longer before vaccines are available for the general public. The state this week received its first shipment of nearly 32,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech. Frontline health care workers at hospitals across the state were the first to receive the vaccine. Locally, Waterbury Hospital received 975 doses in its first shipment and Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury received 470 doses, the Republican-American reported. ....
December 13, 2020 1347 NAUGATUCK Carole (Keller) Mancini, 84, died Dec. 12, 2020, at Beacon Brook Health Center, from complications related to the COVID 19 virus, 15 days after her husband of 60 years, William J. “Ding” Mancini, died from COVID 19 related complications. She and Bill will be able to celebrate their 61st anniversary together on Dec. 26. Carole was born on Dec. 28, 1935, in Waterbury, Conn., daughter of the late Otto and Caroline (Fellows) Keller, and lived in Naugatuck all of her life. Carole worked for several years as a bookkeeper at the Bristol Company and later at Ashmore Trucking Company. She spent close to 50 years working at the Naugatuck Senior Center as a minibus dispatcher, and also loved helping at all of the events put on for the seniors. ....