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Data: Mass COVID vaccination sites not reaching vulnerable areas they are supposed to target


Data: Mass COVID vaccination sites not reaching vulnerable areas they are supposed to target
Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
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Aerial images show the 10-lane set up for Covid-19 vaccinations on the former Pratt & Whitney Runway at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. March 1, 2021.Patrick Sikes / For Hearst Connecticut Media
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven. ....

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Data show mass vaccination sites are reaching the general population -- not the vulnerable areas they are supposed to target


Cars line up at a 10-lane mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Rentschler Field.
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site – near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven.
“We were very disturbed in the first two weeks of opening the Floyd Little site that it was predominantly white suburban people getting vaccinated,” Yale’s chief clinical officer, Dr. Thomas Balcezak, said. ....

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Data Show Conn. Mass Vaccination Sites Not Reaching The Vulnerable Areas They Are Supposed To Target


Cars line up at a 10-lane mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site – near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven.
“We were very disturbed in the first two weeks of opening the Floyd Little site that it was predominantly white suburban people getting vaccinated,” Yale’s chief medical officer, Dr. Thomas Balcezak, said. ....

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