As states across the country struggle to ramp up coronavirus vaccination, Connecticut officials say the state is doing well by comparison and is still on track to complete the first phase of vaccinations within the next month.
At a Wednesday afternoon press briefing, Gov. Ned Lamont said the state is on schedule to finish vaccinating an estimated 22,000 nursing home residents and an estimated 210,000 frontline health care and emergency medicals workers by the end of January, as originally planned.
Nationally, the vaccination rollout appears to be faltering. Officials with the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed originally aimed to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of the year — but as of Monday only about a tenth of that number had actually received a vaccine dose.