New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
Easter Bunny to deliver eggs from Biden to Conn. COVID vaccine clinics
Five Connecticut vaccine clinics are the recipients of 800 purple and gold, wooden Easter eggs from the White House.
The Easter eggs were created for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, which was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden gifted the eggs to 20 health care providers, according to the Community Health Center, a federally-qualified health center with vaccine clinics across the state.
“This was such a surprise, to have two large boxes with White House return addresses arrive at the health center,” Mark Masselli, founder/CEO of the health center, said in a statement. “The contents were hundreds of beautiful White House Easter Eggs, with images of a masked bunny and the President’s dogs, Champ and Major. We can’t wait to share this gift with our young patients and hard-working vaccinators, and are thrilled and humbled to be selected for this honor by President Biden and the First Lady.”
The Easter Bunny will deliver the eggs to five of the health center’s vaccine sites in Danbury, Stamford, Middletown, Hartford and East Hartford.
The eggs will go to the site at the Lord & Taylor parking lot in Stamford from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, then to Wesleyan University from noon to 1 p.m., then Connecticut Pediatrics@CHC in Hartford from 1:30 to 2 p.m., followed by the Pratt & Whitney runway in East Hartford from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The Danbury Fair mall site will be the last stop from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday.