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Experts: More contagious COVID strain may already be in CT. What does it mean?
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Hundreds of people turned out Thursday morning for COVID-19 tests at Liberation Programs, in Bridgeport, Conn. July 9, 2020. The free community Coronavirus test screenings were administered by the staff of Bridgeport’s Southwest Community Health Center.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
The first known U.S. cases of a new COVID strain have been reported this week in Colorado and California. And health experts say the mutation likely already exists elsewhere.
Public health experts, Gov. Ned Lamont and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said it’s possible the variant of the coronavirus is already circulating undetected.
CT to receive fewer COVID vaccines than anticipated
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Hundreds of people turned out Thursday morning for COVID-19 tests at Liberation Programs, in Bridgeport, Conn. July 9, 2020. The free community Coronavirus test screenings were administered by the staff of Bridgeport’s Southwest Community Health Center.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
As Connecticut will become one of the first states in the nation to vaccinate nursing home staff and patients on Friday, state officials are also preparing for a shortage in doses.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday the state will receive about 12,000 fewer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine than originally anticipated.
Did Rhode Island spark surge of COVID cases in CT?
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Photo: Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
Connecticut has outpaced the rest of the nation on average in new COVID-19 cases per capita in the past week, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The state has also surpassed New Jersey, New York and all of the New England states except Rhode Island.
Connecticut also ranks slightly higher than the nation on average for the amount of deaths per capita in the last seven days again outpacing the northeast states except Rhode Island.
Connecticut’s eastern neighbor and the smallest state by land mass had the third-highest number of new cases per 100,000 people over a one-week span as of Tuesday. Rhode Island had been leading the nation until it was recently surpassed by Tennessee and Oklahoma, according to the CDC’s data.
A one-week quarantine IS enough to stop someone exposed to coronavirus from spreading it - if they test negative on day 7, Yale study finds
Researchers looked at oil-rig workers who were quarantined for five to seven days between April 2020 and August 2020
They found tests conducted just four days after the start of quarantine caught cases missed at the beginning
Of 47 people tested on their first and last day, they found 16 cases previously tested negative at the beginning with no new cases identified after quarantine