Super relieved: Shelton teens happy to get a vaccination slot even if it s summer
Brian Gioiele
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Actually, he isn’t. But at least he’s on the list for one. I actually scheduled my appointment last night, just after midnight, right after I received an email from VAMS,” Burden, a Shelton High senior, said. “The earliest appointment I could schedule wasn t until this summer, but I m hoping to be able to find a way to get vaccinated sooner than that.”
The state’s expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to everybody 16 and older went into effect April 1. And Burden and his peers were not behindhand in signing up.
As COVID positivity surges, data shows vaccine supply could surpass demand by May
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Syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine wait on a table at Hartford HealthCare’s new mass vaccination clinic on the west campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. March 10, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Danbury teachers and school district staff get their Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at a vaccine clinic at Rogers Park Middle School on March 6. More than 900 teachers and staff received the vaccine during the two-day clinic.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Megan Murphy, Emergency Management Director for the Town of Trumbull, fills syringes with the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on March 4.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Experts: COVID vaccine priority still uncertain for preexisting conditions
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vialNorwalk Hospital
People with high-risk medical conditions would be allowed to jump the line when the coronavirus vaccine registration opens to everyone over the age of 16 on April 5, but how that will work is still unclear.
Though Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday the state will accelerate access for those with preexisting conditions, which medical ailments will count and whether it can be handled on a unified, statewide level is still an open question, according to health experts.
“Nothing has been fully fleshed out,” said Ohm Deshpande, vice president for population health and a physician leader for Yale New Haven Health’s vaccination program. “Our goal is to come to some sort of consensus that is not at the level of a health provider or health system. We’d like to be working along the same guidelines.”
Red Cross: 5.5% of CT blood donations tested positive for COVID
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A map showing the prevalence of antibodies in Red Cross blood donations in the northeast.Submitted/Red Cross
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About 5.5 percent of all the Red Cross blood donations from healthy, unvaccinated Connecticut residents since June have tested positive for COVID antibodies, the organization said this week.
Overall, the Red Cross tested 3 million blood donations, including 82,353 in Connecticut, between mid-June 2020 and mid-February.
The national positivity rate was 6.6 percent over that time, higher than Connecticut’s average, suggesting the spread of the coronavirus was better contained in this state than in others. In fact, the Northeast had a lower positivity rate than other U.S. regions.
Letter: Time ripe for change in city leadership
March 16, 2021
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To the Editor:
Denial, not the river in Egypt, but the refusal to acknowledge the truth, appears to be the permanent operating mode of the current administration and many of the long time members of the Shelton Board of Alderman (BOA). Shelton residents deserve transparency and honesty in order to tackle the multiple problems facing the city. From the school bus situation, to city finances, to the debacle at the Shelton Police Department, this administration can’t be straight with the people of Shelton.
Buses are late, canceled or not showing up to bus stops properly leaving parents in a daily nerve-wracking situation. While no bus service is perfect, the amount of ongoing problems with the mayor’s bus service is well beyond the challenges in other communities and a point of embarrassment for this community. For the mayor and his shill BOA members to deny a problem exists and to chastise thos