Moderna is the latest company to test whether its Covid-19 vaccine is weakened by what’s become known as the SA variant but is more technically known as the B.1.351 variant.
Trump should push supporters to get vaccine, Fauci says
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post
March 14, 2021
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President Donald Trump, with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Athony Fauci by his side, declares a national emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic on March 13, 2020.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
WASHINGTON - Anthony Fauci, the nation s top infectious-disease expert, said in interviews Sunday that former president Donald Trump should be enlisted to encourage his supporters to get the coronavirus vaccine, after recent polling showed Republican men and Trump supporters have the highest rates of vaccine hesitancy.
An NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist poll released last week showed that nearly half of Republican men and 47% of those who supported Trump in the 2020 election said they would not choose to be vaccinated, even if the coronavirus vaccine was made available to them. Ten percent of supporters of President Joe
Signaling a crisis: The story of Connecticut s first COVID-19 death
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Fred and Beverly Marchionna on vacation in Hawaii in 2011. Fred Marchionna, a retired manager at PerkinElmer Corp., was the first Connecticut resident to die of COVID-19.Courtesy of the Marchionna familyShow MoreShow Less
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Danbury Hospital was the site of the first confirmed COVID-19 infection in Connecticut on March 6, 2020. On March 17, another patient, 88-year-old Frederick Marchionna of Ridgefield, became the state’s first fatality there.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Benchmark Senior Living at Ridgefield Crossing, on Route 7, in Ridgefield, where 88-year-old Frederick Marchionna became infected with COVID-19. He became the state’s first coronavirus related fatality on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Danbury Hospital.Peter Yankowski / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less