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Legislators hear testimony on proposals to eliminate religious vaccine exemption
Hearing is expected to run 24 hours
A public hearing on the religious exemption bill last year drew crowds to the state Capitol and ran for more than 21 hours. This year’s hearing is expected to last 24 hours.
Tensions flared Tuesday as parents, educators, and others testified for and against bills that would remove Connecticut’s religious exemption from mandatory school vaccinations.
Nearly 2,000 people signed up to speak at a public hearing that began at 9 a.m. and is expected to run no more than 24 hours. Leaders of the Public Health Committee imposed the time restriction, saying that if everyone who signed up to testify were permitted to speak, the hearing would last for days. Each speaker was limited to three minutes.
Updated on December 16, 2020 at 5:22 pm
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Connecticut school nurses have been on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic helping to keep schools and communities safe. After months of hard work and long hours, those in the school nursing field in Windsor Locks, Wallingford, Hartford and New Haven are opening up about what it has been like combatting the coronavirus.
Many of their current duties were not in the original job description. We switch from our surgical masks to the N95 respirator. We gown up. We have a visor and gloves,” said Lisa Ciaffaglione, school nurse at South Elementary School in Windsor Locks, as she showed the COVID-19 “isolation room” that’s been set up inside her office. It’s a room she has had to use several times over the last few months while trying to care for, and calm, a young child who may have been exposed to the coronavirus.