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The Board of Alders unanimously adopted nearly 50 recommendations seeking to recognize and undo the negative health impacts caused by systemic racism against Black, Native American, Asian, and Latino residents.

Local legislators took that vote Tuesday night during the latest bi-monthly meeting of the full Board of Alders. The virtual meeting was held online via Zoom and YouTube Live.

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President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination plan aims to provide 100 million shots during his first 100 days in office. To achieve this plan of reaching what researchers call herd immunity —when a large part of the population has become immune to a virus or disease— requires people in the most vulnerable communities to have unprecedented access to immunizations.

Among U.S. states, Connecticut is fourth in percent of the population that has received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and the number of doses administered each week continues to rise. Despite such success, data systems show troubling trends that require state action to stem now. To read more, click here.

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Scheduling now:

• Individuals 75 and older

Scheduling next:

• Individuals between the ages of 65 and 74
  

Scheduling information coming soon:

• Frontline essential workers
• Individuals with an underlying medical condition with increased risk for severe illness
• Congregate settings will be phased in throughout Phase 1b
  

As COVID-19 ripped through Connecticut this year, the Rev. Robyn Anderson saw longstanding systemic health disparities intensify as people of color, many of whom work in high risk, front-line jobs and live in densely populated communities, caught the virus and died from it at a greater rate than white residents. To read more, click here.

Description: Welcome to our two-part webinar event on Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis!

Part 1: The first event will explain what it means to declare racism a public health crisis and why 20 municipalities in Connecticut and 173 states, municipalities, and organizations across the U.S. have made the declaration.

Part 2: The second event will be a panel discussion with local leaders to discuss what next steps have been taken and how to leverage declarations to make anti-racist policy!

This event will be recorded.

For more information, contact Samantha Lew at slew@hesct.org or Katharine Morris at hesintern@hesct.org.

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This hands-on workshop aims to provide a brief introduction to effective public testimony. We will cover the basic building blocks of testimony and discuss how different frames of communication can create impact. After the workshop, participants will be able to utilize a variety of approaches to craft powerful three-minute public hearing presentations.  

Workshop will be facilitated by Sarah Croucher, Ph.D., who has a career spanning higher education and public policy. She spent several years as the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Connecticut, a reproductive rights political advocacy group centered on state-level policy. She is currently Director of Academic Policy and Faculty Affairs at UConn and is about to complete her Masters in Public Administration from the Department of Public Policy.

Please contact maura.maloney@uconn.edu if you have any questions.

NEW HAVEN — Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, has an answer to those who are asking whether they should feel confident about taking the new coronavirus vaccines.

While COVID-19 was new, the creation of the vaccine was built on established scientific practices, Omer said, answering that question and others from the public as part of a discussion held by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Facebook Live Wednesday. To further read, click here.

Connecticut residents age 75 and over who are not in long-term care will be able to register for the COVID-19 vaccine starting Thursday and inoculations will begin Jan. 18, Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday.

Don’t call or show up at your doctors’ offices, Lamont’s chief operating officer warned residents, because the free vaccines will be given in larger clinics that can handle the crush of patients. 

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The New Haven Board of Alders has released recommendations of its Racism as a Public Health Emergency Working Group Tuesday night.

The working group was created this summer after the city declared racism a public health crisis due to minority residents more likely to experience poor health outcomes as a consequence of inequities in economic stability, education, and health care. These inequities – all a result of racism. Click here to read the rest of the article.

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The Changing Geography of COVID-19 in the U.S.

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A community forum to discuss achieving economic justice in our state.

The community budget forum is adapted from Connecticut Voices for Children's Annual budget forum to bring information on the state budget and related issues to the broader community. This year, during a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, we'll begin to imagine what economic justice can look like, together.

Facilitated by Jennifer Quaye-Hudson

Panelists:
The Honorable Michael Passero, City of New London
Mel Medina, Policy Director, ACLU
Roslyn Sotero, Director of Community Programs, Waterbury Bridge to Success
Elizabeth Nearing, Arts Advocate, New Haven
Eddie Martinez, President, Greater Bridgeport Latino Network

Time: Oct 22, 2020 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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