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Connecticut hospitals preparing for a COVID-19 vaccine that could arrive next month are facing a host of unknowns

With some doses of a COVID-19 vaccine potentially arriving in Connecticut before the end of the year, hospitals in the state are knee-deep in preparations to store and administer the vaccine once they receive it.

Hospitals across the state have ordered new freezers to store the vaccine at the appropriate temperatures, and begun prepping their staff both to administer the vaccine and to be among the first in the state to receive the vaccine.

“We want to make sure that we do our part to ready ... the state of Connecticut for mass vaccination,” said Dr. Reginald Eadie, president of Trinity Health of New England, the operator of St.