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Connecticut began to received doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Author: Tony Terzi Updated: 8:20 PM EST December 15, 2020 NORWICH, Conn. Lino Fernandes, who works in Environmental Services for Backus Hospital, speaks five languages. Tuesday morning, he spoke the language of love. Today, I feel proud, I feel happy because I believe in God and I believe in science, said Fernandes, who fittingly was the first Backus employee to receive the vaccine. You see, he helped care for the hospital’s first Covid patient. I saw him. He looked for my eyes. Maybe he was trying to tell me save me, help me, I don’t wanna pass away because I’ve got a family, Fernades recalled of that springtime encounter. ....
Updated on December 15, 2020 at 7:12 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Frontline hospital workers in Norwich were among the first in southeastern Connecticut to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. I feel proud. I feel happy, said Lino Fernandes, an environmental services worker at Backus Hospital. Fernandes was the first person to get vaccinated at the Backus location. After receiving the vaccination, he said that he felt a victory. I believe in God, I believe in science, Fernandes told NBC Connecticut. Lino Fernandes was the first Backus Hospital employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today. He has cleaned rooms in the COVID unit since the beginning of the pandemic. He said, “I believe in God, I believe in science. I feel a victory.” @NBCConnecticut pic.twitter.com/OoPspEzIPf Siobhan McGirl NBC CT (@siobhan mcgirl) December 15, 2020 ....
Norwich Let the record show that Lino Fernandes, a Norwich man in his 30s who works in Backus Hospital’s environmental services department, received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in southeastern Connecticut. Fernandes, standing before reporters, TV cameras and microphones gathered in a Backus conference room, got the injection in his right shoulder at 11:43 a.m. Tuesday, the second day of the vaccine’s rollout in Connecticut. “I believe in God, I believe in science,” Fernandes, a father of four whose family has avoided COVID-19, said, broadly smiling and giving a thumbs-up. “I feel a victory.” Backus, a member of the Hartford HealthCare network, planned to vaccinate 30 front-line workers Tuesday, the first of more than 200 the hospital expects to inoculate this week. Hundreds more workers will get shots next week and thereafter, according to Donna Handley, president of Backus and Windham hospitals. Windham is scheduled to administer ....
As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine. Julia Bergman As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine. ....
NORWICH Lori Hopkins-Cavanaugh, Norwich resident and founder of The American Liberty Center, said she and others have had enough of the COVID-19 restrictions. “Nobody I know is going to be following (Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s) edicts any longer,” Hopkins-Cavanaugh said. “I don’t care if I’m arrested, and I don’t care if I’m thrown in jail.” On Saturday, The American Liberty Center, along with other organizations across the state, including the CT Liberty Rally, the Connecticut Republican Assembly, and the American Constitution Party will hold the Open CT protest in the parking lot of the Senator Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ....