With nearly 102,000 doses administered, the state ranks first per capita among states with populations of more than 2 million people. The first cases of a
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Yale New Haven Hospital has vaccinated more than 16,000 of its employees but said it is only receiving about half the number of Pfizer vaccines that it requests.
Other, smaller, hospitals, including Saint Mary’s and Waterbury hospitals, say they have adequate supply.
“We are concerned about that speed and are doing as much of we can to vaccinate all of our people as soon as we can get it,” said Yale Chief Medical Officer Thomas Balcezak. “We are getting that vaccine into the arms of people as fast as we can.”
Balcezak said the hospital system, the state’s largest, generally receives half the number of vaccines it requests weekly from the state, which is 10,000. So far it has vaccinated more than 16,000 members of its staff and hopes to complete the vaccination of 80 % of its employees by the end of the month.
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Two New Haven County residents under the age of 25 years old have tested positive for a new, more transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2, the type of coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Medical experts say this variant, scientifically labeled B.1.1.7 and first discovered in the United Kingdom, appears to spread more easily and quickly. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that “there is no evidence that it causes more severe illness or increased risk of death.”
“What it means is if you’re standing 6 feet away from somebody for less than 15 minutes and you’re not wearing your mask, the chance of you getting infected if somebody nearby is infected has just gone up,” Gov. Ned Lamont said during a media briefing Thursday.
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Transportation workers, mail carriers, teachers, first responders, grocery store employees and others are positioned to be the next groups of people eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut.
State officials said during a public meeting Tuesday that the state’s Phase 1B vaccination distribution could begin as early as this month and include up to 800,000 workers and residents.
“Not too many more than that, because that allows us to have a somewhat manageable phase size,” said Benjamin Bechtolsheim, COVID-19 vaccination program director at the state Department of Public Health. “We think that that’s something that can be accomplished in roughly 10 weeks of a vaccine rollout.”