With a first shipment expected today at St. Francis Hospital, Trinity Health Of New England is set to become the latest Connecticut healthcare system to begin vaccinating its staff with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as the vaccination campaign ramps up across the state.
Trinity will get 5,500 doses of the Moderna vaccine, with doses designated for frontline workers at the network’s Connecticut hospitals this week.
Trinity’s Connecticut hospitals got another shipment of 975 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. As of early this week, the regional system had vaccinated more than 2,200 workers in Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
All Trinity employees who choose to be vaccinated are expected to get the shot by the end of January or early February, a hospital spokesperson said in a statement.
Hartford HealthCare got 8,800 doses of the Moderna vaccine delivered on Monday, and the health system said it expected to vaccinate 10,000 people this week.Â
Gov. Ned Lamont said the state was expecting 63,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, along with 24,375 doses of the Pfizer vaccine plus the 31,200 doses received last week. Connecticut approved the Moderna vaccine over the weekend after it was approved by the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group.
As of Monday, 7,761 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered in the state.Â
With expanded distribution, the vaccine is expected to be administered this week at 34 hospitals, 21 health clinics, 21 local health departments and 75 additional nursing homes. Nine nursing homes have already vaccinated all who are willing and qualified, according to state data released on Monday.
