{"id":211749,"date":"2026-04-27T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:31:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-new-law-to-protect-vaccine-access-in-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211749\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | New Law To Protect Vaccine Access In Ct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Ned Lamont Connecticut signed a bill into law Monday morning aimed at protecting vaccine access by countering the Trump administration&#8217;s change to the vaccine schedule.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Connecticut&#8217;s vaccine standards are now independent from federal guidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lamont says the law allows vaccines to be available and affordable in the state.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The new law ensures pharmacists can administer vaccines and all state regulated individual and group insurance plans will continue covering their costs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bill also establishes a voluntary adult flu vaccine pilot program to help uninsured or underinsured patients get flu vaccines for free.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ned Lamont Connecticut signed a bill into law Monday morning aimed at protecting vaccine access by countering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-211749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}