Nearly three quarters of eligible CT residents expected to be vaccinated by end of April Officials are not tracking how many people receive 'accelerated access' to vaccine Beth Wright, kindergarten teacher in New Haven, gets vaccinated at Wilbur Cross High School. State officials expect nearly three quarters of Connecticut residents 16 and older to have received a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this month. Eligibility opened Thursday to all people regardless of age. Since Thursday, 50,000 residents ages 16 to 44 – the newest group granted access – received a first dose of the vaccine. “We’re going to be getting some very high numbers of the percentage of the total Connecticut population vaccinated by the end of the month,” said Josh Geballe, the state’s chief operating officer. “We should be at about 60% of people having received their first dose. Keep in mind, that still includes a significant portion of the population younger than 16, who are not eligible. So just looking at the eligible population 16 and above, we think we could be close to three quarters of the entire population with their first dose by the end of the month.”