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Supply chain woes delay distribution of Connecticut’s at-home Covid tests





In a case of one crisis disrupting another crisis, Gov. Ned Lamont announced the distribution of at-home Covid-19 test kits in Connecticut has been pushed back from today’s scheduled allocation because of supply chain problems.

“Due to shipping and warehouse delays outside of the State of Connecticut’s control, our state’s anticipated shipment of Covid-19 at-home rapid tests are currently delayed from arriving in Connecticut,” said Lamont in a press statement. “My staff and multiple state agencies have spent the past several days working around the clock to accelerate the movement of our tests through what is clearly a shipping and distribution bottleneck on the West Coast amid unprecedented international demand for tests.”

Lamont did not provide a new estimated time for arrival, only noting that his office “will provide updates as we have them in order to distribute the tests as quickly as possible.”

Connecticut’s daily test positivity rate for Covid is now at 17.78%, a new high. Of the 1,113 patients currently hospitalized with Covid, 823 or 73.9% are not fully vaccinated.

In response to the rising number of reported Covid cases, Yale New Haven Health has imposed a new policy that limits access to patients at its hospitals, which includes Bridgeport Hospital and Greenwich Hospital in Fairfield County. Exceptions to the policy are being made for visitors to patients facing an imminent end of life and for Americans with Disabilities Act-related cases of patients who require a support person.






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Phil Hall’s writing for Westfair Communications has earned multiple awards from the Connecticut Press Club and the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. He is a former United Nations-based reporter for Fairchild Broadcast News and the author of 10 books (including the 2020 release “Moby Dick: The Radio Play” and the upcoming “Jesus Christ Movie Star,” both published by BearManor Media). He is also the host of the SoundCloud podcast “The Online Movie Show,” co-host of the WAPJ-FM talk show “Nutmeg Chatter” and a writer with credits in The New York Times, New York Daily News, Hartford Courant, Wired, The Hill’s Congress Blog, Profit Confidential, The MReport and StockNews.com. Outside of journalism, he is also a horror movie actor – usually playing the creepy villain who gets badly killed at the end of each film.


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