Cars line up at a 10-lane mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Rentschler Field.
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site – near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven.
“We were very disturbed in the first two weeks of opening the Floyd Little site that it was predominantly white suburban people getting vaccinated,” Yale’s chief clinical officer, Dr. Thomas Balcezak, said.
Cars line up at a 10-lane mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.
When Yale New Haven Hospital officials opened their first mass vaccination clinic at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, they thought they had found the perfect site – near the center of the city and accessible by multiple bus lines for the residents it hoped would come there.
But it didn’t take long for hospital officials to realize that while they were vaccinating lots of people at Floyd Little, few of them were from New Haven.
“We were very disturbed in the first two weeks of opening the Floyd Little site that it was predominantly white suburban people getting vaccinated,” Yale’s chief medical officer, Dr. Thomas Balcezak, said.
Several other prominent healthcare professionals including Dr. Darnell Young, a dentist and Dr. Tamiko Jackson-McArthur, a pediatrician, also received their vaccines on Monday, the city added. With a new coronavirus strain spreading in England, there are concerns that the COVID-19 vaccines won t be effective against it. Public health physician, professor, and health policy expert Dr. Vin Gupta joined LX News to discuss why confidence is high that the FDA approved vaccines will fight the new variant of the virus. While the vaccines are not a cure-all, and we are far from out of the woods, they help us get the upper hand in the fight against this deadly virus. They are also providing an added layer of protection to the first responders and other frontline workers we are relying on to get through this, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said in a statement in part.