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Connecticut Health District Directors Say More Funding is Necessary

They say sustained and increased funding needed.

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Blumenthal Discuss Covid Rollout
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(Hartford, Conn .WTIC)-Connecticut Area Health District Directors sent a message to Senator Richard Blumenthal

during  a roundtable discussion:  We need more  funding.


The Senator met with them to discuss the vaccine rollout.  Connecticut has received about $51 milion for that effort,

so far vaccinating about 75-thousand residents.

Michael Pascucilla of the Eastern Shore Health District, which serves Branford, North Branford and East Haven said it's

not  about  just  receiving a pot  of money to get  through the next  event.  "That's how it's been... we're not  funded.

Cimate  change is here and we have some  major challenges ahead of us. In the end we're the ones with relationships

with our community,  receiving the calls."

Robert Rubo runs the Torrington Area Health  District. " Although some grant money came  down, we were trying to build

our  capacity  while were responding  and  that made it  very difficult.  While  were  able  to hire  more  people, we  needed

to take valuable staff time to train those individuals. while trying to  respond."

Blumenthal called the federal vaccine  rollout, "abysmal, flawed and failing."

They say sustained and increased funding needed.