Concert ticketing service Ticketfly says it’s working to get its system back online after a data breach leaked users’ personal information and disrupted services at live music venues. The San Francisco firm’s parent company, Eventbrite, said Sunday that the stolen information included customers’ names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. It hasn’t disclosed other details, but a website that tracks data. president May 10, 2018
The most challenging cities to live with spring allergies are mostly located in the northwest and southwest of the country, NBC News reported. The finding comes in a recently study by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, which also says climate change is to blame for this year’s more intense pollen counts. Among the study’s rankings of the.
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The CDC, which has been providing guidance to states and the federal government since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, has suddenly dropped its recommendation that vaccinated people wear a mask and practice social distancing indoors. (Shutterstock)
CONNECTICUT In a surprise move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday it was rescinding almost all its recommended coronavirus mitigation rules for how unvaccinated people should behave indoors. The announcement sent governors and state legislatures riffling through their playbooks for a way to accelerate their pandemic exit strategies.
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The CDC, which has been providing guidance to states and the federal government since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, has suddenly dropped its recommendation that vaccinated people wear a mask and practice social distancing while indoors. The guidance is still in effect for those not vaccinated against
The COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer is now available to roughly 170,000 Connecticut residents, ages 12 to 15, at all clinics in the state offering that particular vaccine, Gov. Ned Lamont said Wednesday. The state's announcement came shortly after advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed use of the vaccine in children as young as 12, concluding it would allow kids to safely attend camps this summer and return to.
Connecticut to launch $150 million fund to help businesses
By SUSAN HAIGH and PAT EATON-ROBBMay 6, 2021 GMT
A new $150 million, multi-year initiative to invest in Connecticut businesses, with a major focus on fledgling small businesses located in communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, was unveiled on Thursday.
The Department of Economic and Community Development hopes the private sector will match that funding and co-invest in entrepreneurs, small businesses and start-ups, Commissioner David Lehman said.
“We think there’s a real opportunity to make this initiative even larger and have the state drive it, but with a significant amount of co-investment capital from corporations and philanthropists,” Lehman said.
New Canaan Public Schools officials say they’ve updated a quarantining requirement that affects many sports-oriented families.
Until this week, if a family traveled out-of-state for more than 24 hours for a sports tournament, they’d be required to quarantine for a minimum of seven days after testing negative for COVID-19 virus on their return, or 10 days without a test-out, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi told members of the Board of Education said during the elected body’s meeting last week.
Luizzi said during the meeting, held May 3 via videoconference, that he and others were seeking approval from health officials to update the change the requirement so that kids involved in sports could return to school faster.