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Three legal aid organizations filed a federal civil rights complaint on Monday, claiming that the governor's vaccination plan discriminates against Black and brown residents.

Data: Mass COVID vaccination sites reach general population — not vulnerable areas they are supposed to target By Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org © Provided by Connecticut Post 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. When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found...

Data: Mass COVID vaccination sites not reaching vulnerable areas they are supposed to target Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail 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 p...

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 f...

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, f...

What does it mean when people feel their best shot at understanding the system comes from a Facebook group?

A year into the COVID-19 crisis, Ned Lamont is the face of the pandemic in Connecticut.

Dan Haar: The inside story behind Lamonts vaccination order reversal FacebookTwitterEmail Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont receives his first dose of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine at The First Cathedral church Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Bloomfield.File photo The first hint for Gov. Ned Lamont and his top aides that Connecticut might be better off sticking with age groups as the vaccination order, not front-line workers or people with medical conditions, came in a mid-afternoon meeting on a very hectic da...

Opinion: The inequity governor reveals himself By Niels Heilmann © Provided by Connecticut Post Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont receives his first dose of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine at The First Cathedral church Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Bloomfield. In his book “Stamped from the Beginning,” Ibram X. Kendi notes that where you see racial disparities, they are the result of racist policies. He further notes that inaction — thus upholding existing racial disparities — is a pow...

Teachers and other school workers still to be prioritized Gov. Ned Lamont looks at a syringe that Patrice Marriott, registered nurse at Trinity Health of New England, holds before giving him the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the First Cathedral church in Bloomfield this month. (Yehyun Kim, CTMirror.org) Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday he is throwing out the state’s current playbook for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout – which had prioritized people with underlying medical conditions and cer...