January 27, 2022 marks the deadline for Connecticut health facilities to have policies and procedures in place to satisfy federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) regulations mandating vaccines of their...more
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In an effort to ensure that Connecticut continues taking the most equitable and efficient approach to quickly administering the COVID-19 vaccine to as many people as possible, Governor Ned Lamont announced on February 21,...more
Connecticut residents over the age of 65 will be eligible to schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments starting on Thursday, February 11, 2021, as the state rolls into the next part of phase 1b of its vaccination program....more
In Executive Order 7UU, Governor Lamont ordered mandatory COVID-19 testing of all employees and staff at all private and municipal nursing homes, managed residential communities, and assisted living services agencies. These...more
6/5/2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a series of profound changes to the American workplace, including the fact that the life-threatening virus has now been added to the list of recordable illnesses for covered employers under...more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently responding to the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. While as of the date of this Alert there have been no confirmed cases of the virus in...more