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Eugene Driscoll | Aug 16, 2021 8:28 am
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ANSONIA — With new COVID-19 cases on the rise across the U.S. thanks to the Delta variant, Griffin Health released three new public service announcement videos to YouTube over the weekend.
Two of the PSAs target young people, encouraging them to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest ‘Vax The Valley’ campaign was announced in a prepared statement Friday by state Rep. Kara Rochelle, who represents Ansonia and Derby.
Rochelle’s press release pointed out that Ansonia’s youngest residents are not getting the COVID-19 vaccination at the same rate as the rest of Connecticut. Data from the state shows that 38.6 percent of Ansonia residents between the ages of 12 and 17 have ‘initiated’ vaccination, meaning they’ve received one shot. Meanwhile, 57.9 percent of people between 12 and 15 statewide have started vaccination, Rochelle noted.
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Eugene Driscoll | Aug 9, 2021 5:17 am
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There are several new opportunities coming up to get the COVID-19 vaccination, the best way to protect yourself from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children under 12 are not eligible for the vaccine.
These clinics are free.
(Editor’s Note: as of Aug. 9, there’s no single-source website (this is the closest) to get hyperlocal vaccination clinic info, especially with one-day clinics. The information in this post was gathered from individual posts on Facebook, org websites, and email inquiries.)
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Eugene Driscoll | Aug 6, 2021 5:08 am
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#VaxTheValley
New Haven County was designated by the CDC on Thursday as a ‘high transmission’ area of COVID-19.
“The high transmission category — which is the most severe as defined by the CDC — is 100 or more cases per 100,000 people or a positivity rate of 10 percent or higher over the past seven days,” the Connecticut Department of Health said in a prepared statement Thursday.
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Eugene Driscoll | Aug 5, 2021 6:09 am
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ANSONIA — City government issued a directive Wednesday asking visitors to wear face masks indoors when visiting public buildings.
The move, posted to the City of Ansonia’s Facebook page and distributed to the press, follows the advice of both the CDC and the state Department of Health. See the flyer at the top of this post for the new Ansonia safety precautions.
It comes as the nation sees an uptick in COVID-19 positive cases thanks to the Delta variant, which is proving to be more easily transmissible than the first COVID-19 strain that entered Connecticut in March of 2020.
Connecticut’s statewide COVID-19 positivity rate was 3.35 percent on Wednesday.
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Eugene Driscoll | Jun 7, 2021 1:44 pm
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DERBY — A COVID-19 vaccination clinic has been scheduled for Tuesday, according to a flyer shared with the media by the Derby City/Town Clerk’s Office.
Please note the local government isn’t connected to the clinic, but is helping to spread the word:
St. Vincent de Paul of the Valley Thrift Shoppe and Food Bank will be hosting a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic administered by Griffin Health on Tuesday June 8, 2021 from 10:00 am to 2 pm at 237 Roosevelt Drive, Derby, CT 06418. No appointment is necessary.
First and second doses of Pfizer will be available, along with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Please bring photo id and insurance card if you have them.
