Stamford Health to shutter COVID-19 vaccine supersite in South End effective July 23 – The Advocate

STAMFORD Stamford Health will close its South End vaccine supersite on July 23, officially marking the end of the mass vaccination era in Stamford.

The hospital attributed its decision to high vaccination rates in the community and the availability of multiple other decentralized locations for vaccination. Stamfords other mass vaccination site, run by Community Health Centers, closed on June 30.

Stamfords only hospital opened its mass vaccination site on March 15 at the former Pitney Bowes headquarters and operated the venture with both the city government and the sites proprietor, Building and Land Technology. Before opening the supersite, Stamford Health was vaccinating patients on its main campus in the Wheeler Building.

There, the hospital was administering between 730 and 930 COVID-19 vaccines per day. At the Elmcroft supersite, Building and Land Technology Chairman Carl R. Kuehner III said the hospital could vaccinate up to 3,000 people daily.

Overall, the city has progressively moved away from using large-scale vaccine clinics. Instead, the city Department of Health and other healthcare providers have relied on appointment-free pop-up clinics since late April. These events have appeared everywhere, from Cove Island Park to church parking lots.

The complete list of upcoming pop-up clinics is available via the citys website.

Stamford Health earlier this month began easing its pandemic-related precautions. The hospital announced that patients without COVID could start receiving more than one visitor a day. A week later, the hospital said it would no longer mandate COVID-19 testing for fully vaccinated hospital patients. However, those patients must still show proof of vaccination.

Stamfords new cases, while low, have been slowly increasing for the past four weeks. In mid-June, the citys 7-day rolling average was 1. Now, it is 4, according to Hearst Connecticut Media data.

veronica.delvalle@hearstmediact.com

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