Press Releases - 2021

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• 10/15/2021 Connecticut DPH Provides Update on Long-term Care Facility Staff Vaccination Rates

• 9/24/2021 Connecticut Department of Public Health Issues Statement Regarding ACIP Guidance On Boosters

• 9/24/2021 Durham Physician's License Suspended For Providing Blank, Signed COVID-19 Forms And Exemptions

• 9/17/2021 Connecticut DPH Issues Statement Regarding FDA Vaccine Advisors Vote

  Connecticut Department Of Public Health Issues Statement Regarding Friday’s FDA Vaccine Advisors Vote

• 4/23/2021 DPH Confirms A Second Case of Measles In Fairfield County Household

• 5/19/2021 Statement from DPH on the Recent Norovirus Outbreak Involving a Food Service Establishment in Ellington

• 12/29/2021 Governor Lamont Announces Plans To Distribute Three Million COVID-19 Self-Tests

• 2/19/2021 DPH Warns of Contaminated Cheese, Cites Recall of Queso Fresco Varieties

• 4/13/2021 CTDPH Statement on Pause In the Use of J&J Vaccine

• 12/3/2021 Statement From Connecticut DPH Commissioner Manisha Juthani MD On The Resignation Of Comptroller Kevin Lembo

• 4/6/2021 CT DPH/USGS release:  Private Well Owners Urged to Test Water Quality; New USGS Report Shows High Arsenic/Uranium Levels in Some Wells

• 6/14/2021 Connecticut Department of Public Health Identifies Ceramicware Pots as Source of Lead Poisoning

• 7/30/2021 Statement from Deidre S Gifford MD MPH Acting CT DPH Commissioner

• 8/30/2021 Connecticut Department of Public Health Issues Health Alert

  Tolland County Now Upgraded To The “High Transmission” Category Windham Is Now The Only County Listed In The “Substantial Transmission” Category