Lamont urges Connecticut residents not to let guard down from COVID-19 on New Year s
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Dec 30, 2020, 1:01pm EST
Gov. Ned Lamont Wednesday says Connecticut residents should not let their guard down on New Year s Eve from COVID-19.
The governor says hospitalizations are down by 59 across Connecticut just over the last 24 hours, and that the state positivity rate is just below 6%. I can t force you what you do on New Year s Eve in your own residence, Lamont says, when asked about large private parties at homes during the holiday.
According to state guidelines, it is recommended that private gatherings both indoors and outdoors be limited to 10 people.
All Ridgefield schools return to hybrid model
Macklin Reid
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Ridgefield Superintendent of Schools Susie Da SilvaContributed photo
RIDGEFIELD It will be “hybrid learning” meaning smaller groups of students will be in school buildings at different times when classes resume in Ridgefield schools on Monday, Jan. 4.
“Reducing person density in our school buildings is a mitigation strategy to further prevent the spread of COVID-19,” said Aaron Crook, the school system’s COVID-19 health and safety liaison. “. We will also be communicating additional information to RPS families and faculty about mitigation efforts before we return to hybrid learning on Jan. 4.”
While Ridgefield High School and the two middle schools had been on hybrid learning before vacation, for most of the last two months the elementary schools had been inviting a full compliment of students in to classes every day although some families preferred “remote learning” over t
At the start of the first coronavirus wave in the Worcester area, the region was suffering worse than almost any other on a national scale.
At one point in late April, the area s death count exceeded that of San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, San Diego all far larger areas by population. That put the Worcester area at among the worst 5% of metro areas nationally.
At the end of March, the Worcester metro area which includes Worcester County and Connecticut s Windham County was in the worst 10% of metro areas for its rate of confirmed cases.
Now, cases are far higher than back then, with Christmas-week numbers showing only a slight dip from consecutive weeks of all-time highs, and warnings from public officials of a post-Christmas boom in cases. Still, the Worcester metro area no longer stands out.
.Margaret Whitty, a long-term resident at Stella Maris in Timonium, Md., receives a COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Jennifer McMenamin, courtesy Stella Maris via Catholic Review) .Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago receives the COVID-19 vaccine at St. Anthony Hospital Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic) .Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago blesses employees at St. Anthony Hospital who distribute the COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 23, 2020. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic) .El cardenal Blase J. Cupich de Chicago se vacunó contra el COVID-19 en el hospital St. Anthony Hospital el 23 de diciembre 2020. (Foto CNS /Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)
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Connecticut declines to send names, birthdays of vaccine recipients to CDC
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Dr. Diana Rodriguez receives the COVID-19 vaccine with the first batch of Moderna’s vaccine at Hartford Hospital on Dec. 21.JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON In order to ship to millions of vaccine doses and quickly put shots in arms, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is gathering unprecedented amounts of data on Americans who receive the COVID-19 vaccine from states who usually keep this information largely to themselves.
When individuals get the COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut, the doctor, nurse or pharmacist will enter their name, which company’s vaccine they received and other information into a state immunization database. The state will then share some of this data with the CDC on a regular basis.