CDC projects 700M vaccine doses by April

Here are the most important things to know about the coronavirus in Connecticut:

155 new cases since yesterday

On Wednesday, the state of Connecticut announced 155 new cases since Tuesday, one more death and three more hospitalizations. The positivity rate (the percentage of total tests that are positive) is at 1.1 percent today.

CT surrounded by non-hotspot states, except for one

Connecticut is mostly surrounded by non-hotspot states, except for one border shared with Rhode Island. Although Rhode Island is one of the smaller U.S. states, it has become a hotspot with a positivity rate of 1.5 percent.

CDC director projects 700 million COVID-19 doses by April

There could be 700 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during Senate testimony Wednesday that some people won’t see a vaccine until July 2021, as the New York Times reported.

Johnson & Johnson moves to late-stage testing with vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has started late-stage testing on its coronavirus vaccine candidate, one of now four possible vaccines to be in stage three of testing. The trial is a 60,000-person clinical trial, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Sacred Heart University is close to a full-fledged outbreak

Sacred Heart’s tally of positive COVID cases has been climbing by the day. In the last seven days, the university has reported 107 cases. School officials suggested the school could suspend in-person classes if the rate of new coronavirus infections continues to climb.