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CONNECTICUT Connecticut opened up coronavirus vaccine appointments for people between 65 and 74 years old Thursday, but it will take some time to get doses to people in the age bracket who want them.
Around 61 percent of state residents 75 and over and 13 percent (mainly due long term care facilities) of residents between 65 and 74 have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
There are still around 300,000 people 65 and over whom haven t received a vaccine dose yet. The state gets around 69,000 first doses per week.
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Who can get the vaccine as of Feb. 11?
Residents 65 and over.
Residents and staff at long-term care facilities (through federal CVS/Walgreens.)
Health care executives share lessons of pandemic February 10, 2021
Share This Top executives from Connecticut’s four largest health care providers candidly shared the lessons they’ve learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they’re planning for the uncertainties to come during a virtual forum in October titled “Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis: Change, Innovation, Leadership and Success.”
The event kicked off the inaugural Thought Leaders in Health Care Speaker Series, made possible by a generous gift from Denise J. Fiore ’78, MBA ’91. Her MBA is in health care management. Fiore said she could not have imagined a more appropriate topic than COVID-19 when she began working with QU to bring health care leaders together for inspiring annual discussions.
By Kasturi Pananjady, Jenna Carlesso and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror
For weeks, Robert Rubbo, head of the Torrington Area Health District, has been fielding calls from anxious seniors trying to schedule their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
Residents began scheduling appointments for their second Moderna shot in mid-January, but there weren’t enough appointments to accommodate everyone. So Rubbo has re-routed his staff and recruited additional volunteers to nearly double the appointments in his three weekly clinics.
“We were getting a lot of phone calls. People were concerned they couldn’t find appointments for the second dose,” he said. “We felt the need to try and open this up to help them out. We didn’t want them to get left out there without a clinic.”
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Kasturi Pananjady, Jenna Carlesso and Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CTMirror.org
Feb. 4, 2021
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Thomas Juliusburger, of Stamford, receives the Pfizer vaccince shot from nurse Justin Leas, during Community Health Center s mass drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic held at the parking lot of Lord & Taylor in Stamford, Conn., on Wednesday Feb. 3, 2021.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
For weeks, Robert Rubbo, head of the Torrington Area Health District, has been fielding calls from anxious seniors trying to schedule their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
Residents began scheduling appointments for their second Moderna shot in mid-January, but there weren’t enough appointments to accommodate everyone. So Rubbo has re-routed his staff and recruited additional volunteers to nearly double the appointments in his three weekly clinics.