COVID-19 Hospitalizations Up As CT Towns Start To Hunker Down

CONNECTICUT — As the number of residents being admitted to Connecticut hospitals with COVID-19 continues to climb, towns throughout the state are reexamining their mitigation protocols and strategies.

Some towns that had shuttered their COVID-19 task forces are getting those bands back together to better keep an eye on the spread and amp up communication with residents. Others are taking a harder look at mask mandates.

A few of the midsize and smaller municipalities, such as Easton, New Fairfield and Bethel, are joining cities like New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Stamford, Norwalk and Danbury in setting some form of tighter mask restrictions.

The United States and Connecticut are out of severe harm's way because of their relatively high vaccination rates, and most experts agree that the key to beating COVID-19 is for vaccination rates to scale faster than delta's spread. But Dr. F. Perry Wilson, a Yale epidemiologist, has warned that if the delta variant of the coronavirus keeps moving fast enough to accelerate the pandemic, multiplying infections in the U.S. could steepen an upward COVID-19 curve.

As of Tuesday, the daily coronavirus positivity rate in the state climbed to 3.15 percent, based on 29,007 tests yielding 914 positive results. The total of laboratory-confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases reported among Connecticut residents is now 360,552.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue their upward trajectory in Connecticut. Eleven residents were admitted into area hospitals for treatment of the virus in the past 24-hoour reporting period, bringing the total number of patients to 230.

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