COVID-19 Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot.

Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island will offer free COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots on Wednesday, Jan. 5, at the Children’s Museum in Bridgehampton and at the Montauk Playhouse to get more Latino parents and kids vaccinated.

OLA of Eastern Long Island will hold two events next Wednesday — at the Montauk Playhouse and at the Children’s Museum in Bridgehampton.

Republican Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin rallied in Albany on Monday to fight the mandate. He is running for governor against Hochul next year.

Governor Kathy Hochul will issue a new mask mandate for businesses or venues that don’t have a vaccination policy.

Connecticut’s daily COVID-19 positivity rate has remained above 5% for the past week.

The academy mandated that all cadets be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 28, or they face getting kicked out of school. The mandate has no exceptions for mask-wearing or weekly tests.

To help promote boosters, Juthani, who is an infectious disease physician, administered a booster shot to Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim at the mobile vaccine clinic at the Merton Center.

The center partnered with community groups around Bridgeport to offer bilingual mobile sessions to answer questions about the vaccines for nonnative English speakers.

Even though the state has the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the country with 84% of residents 18 and older fully vaccinated, the infection rate is inching up, he said.