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Mandated COVID vaccine? CT universities take different approaches
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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.File / Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD Matriculating at public schools or universities means getting up to date on your immunizations, from measles to mumps to meningococcal.
But could the COVID-19 vaccine be next on the back-to-school list? At Wesleyan University, the answer is yes.
The private university in Middletown announced Tuesday that students must be vaccinated against the coronavirus before the start of the fall semester.
Ability Beyond to host annual gala, other Danbury area highlights
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The Rev. Whitney Altopp (c) of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is flanked by Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray and Rabbi David Reiner of Congregation Shir Shalom of Westchester and Fairfield Counties. The three form the leadership of the Ridgefield Clergy Assocation./Show MoreShow Less
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Ability Beyond announces ‘Gala & Beyond’
Ability Beyond, a nonprofit headquartered in Bethel and Chappaqua, N.Y, announced its April 24 “Gala & Beyond” to raise funds for critical programs and services for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, brain injury and neurological disorders throughout Connecticut and New York.
Danbury-area vaccine providers prepared to pivot after Johnson & Johnson pause announced
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Griffin Hospital nurse Carrie Cotto administers the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Reinaldo Vazquez, of Meriden, Conn., during a clinic at the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (Dave Zajac /Record-Journal via AP)DAVE ZAJAC / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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People wait in line to receive the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a clinic at the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center in Meriden, Conn., on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (Dave Zajac /Record-Journal via AP)DAVE ZAJAC / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Many Danbury-area clinics and providers say they will be largely unaffected by the federal “pause” on Johnson & Johnson vaccine administration announcedTuesday morning following six cases of rare but severe blood clots.
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Quinnipiac University in Hamden emptied after spring break last year. Many Connecticut colleges and universities are weighing whether to require that students be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning for the fall 2021 term.
Until Tuesday morning, the key question facing college administrators in Connecticut about the COVID-19 vaccine was whether they should require students to get immunized before returning to campus in the fall.
Then, after the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced a “pause” on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of concerns over the potential for blood clots, administrators’ attention for the moment turned to the question of how to vaccinate people on campus now.