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“If you look at the polio history, we vaccinated our younger ones and we got herd immunity. So, it happened with other infections, it will happen with this infection,” Yildirim said.
Health experts say we need to have about 70% of the state fully vaccinated to reach herd immunity which will help reduce the spread of COVID. We’re only at 34% percent and weekly vaccination numbers are declining.
“So my concern is as we reopen our state and begin to resume activities, whether that’s indoors or outdoors, there are still large pockets where there are very low vaccination rates. That’s where we’re going to see outbreaks,” said Summer McGee, epidemiologist and dean of the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences.
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“I think we’re going to see much more easily widespread implementation and use of this vaccine,” said Summer Mcgee, dean of the University of New Haven School of Health Sciences.
It also does not need to be kept at such cold temperatures as the Pfizer vaccine. McGee said that is helpful reaching more people outside of cities, as well as groups like students who may be hard to schedule a second dose.
“So really this vaccine really presents some interesting tradeoffs,” said McGee. “It’s the balance of some of those logistical benefits with a little bit less effectiveness.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Connecticut rabbi’s appeal of a nearly $22 million jury verdict in a sexual abuse civil case.
In 2019, 79-year-old Rabbi Daniel Greer was sentenced to 12 years in prison on state criminal charges related to sexual abuse.
The civil case was filed in 2017 by a New Jersey man who said Greer repeatedly sexually abused him when he was a teenager at the Yeshiva of New Haven School that Greer founded.
Greer denies the charges and has appealed his civil convictions arguing the trial judge made mistakes in instructing the jury about how to consider Greer’s Fifth Amendment right when declining to answer questions during the trial.