This week’s updates for Connecticut Physicians, APRNs, PAs, and RNs:  
COVID-19 Epidemiology: COVID-19 case rates are rising in Connecticut, as is the proportion of the B.1.1.7 variant, estimated to be at 40% of new cases.


A positive antibody test could indicate either previous infection or vaccination. An antibody test should not be used to assess immunity to COVID-19 or the need for vaccination in an unvaccinated person.
 
Reminder about childhood vaccinations: With the disruption of both in-person learning and routine well-child visits due to COVID-19, childhood vaccination rates have declined. Healthcare providers are encouraged to identify and follow up with families whose children have missed doses to get appointments scheduled.

Learning resources to share. IPC (Infection Prevention and Control) practices remain the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19. CDC’s new infection control training collaborative, Project Firstline, helps frontline healthcare workers gain an understanding of infection control principles and confidence to implement protocols.

CT DPH Provider Call-In: As this Friday is a state holiday, there will be no Provider Call-in this week. Please join us on April 9 for our next session.

Sincerely,  
Vivian Leung, MD
Infectious Diseases Section
Connecticut Department of Public Health

Senate RINOs are calling it quits!
 
Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Rob Portman (R-OH), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Dick Shelby (R-AL), and Roy Blunt (R-MO) have all announced their retirements – dealing a major blow to the Republican establishment's inner circle.
 
The mainstream media believes these departures are a loss for the Republican Party, but they actually create a unique opportunity to replace weak Republicans next year with strong conservatives who will truly fight for our principles and values.
 
In addition to these open seats, there are also vulnerable Democrats on the ballot in Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire.
 
But electing rock-solid conservatives in these states won't be easy. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his allies are already working to recruit candidates who will maintain business as usual.
 
Please help elect true conservative leaders to the U.S. Senate by supporting the Senate Conservatives Fund today!
 
President Trump is right. Supporting RINOs is pointless.
 
But that's what the GOP establishment and their political committees do. They're even supporting pro-impeachment Republicans like Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
 
Now is the time for conservatives to make 2022 an earthquake election like 2016 that weakens the political establishment.
 
We can do it, but only if we take early action to recruit and fund strong conservative candidates ahead of the primary elections next year.
 
You can help by making a one-time or monthly contribution to the Senate Conservatives Fund.
 
No other conservative group has upset the Senate GOP establishment more than SCF.
 
We're a real threat to the Senate power-brokers because they know they can't buy us off like many other so-called conservative groups and because we put real money behind the candidates we endorse.
 
Your support is so important that if you give $25 or more, we will send you a copy of Senator Josh Hawley's upcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, as a way to thank you for your support.
 
Please take action right now and help us take advantage of the opportunities in 2022 to build a conservative Senate.
 
Thank you for considering this important request and for doing so much to help fight for America's future.
 
Sincerely,
 
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund

In the synagogue, I heard a sweet elderly lady in a nearby pew saying a prayer. She was so innocent and sincere that I just had to share it with you:
“Avinu she'ba'shamayim (Our Father in Heaven):
This last year has been very tough. You have taken my favorite actors: Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas and Diana Rigg;
My favorite television host, Alex Trebek; Carl Reiner from ‘Your Show of Shows’;
My favorite singer from the 50’s, Little Richard; even Charlie Daniels and Kenny Rogers my two favorite country western singers;
and from sports you took Gale Sayers and my favorite basketball player Kobe Bryant
“I just wanted you to know that my favorite politicians are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer.
Amen!

You and I can’t prevent every candidate’s mistakes, but we can train them to stop saying dumb things that get them in trouble for no good reason.
You know where I discovered the joy of annoying liberals?
My beloved alma mater, Cornell University.
There I became the editor of our conservative student paper, the Cornell Review. Our paper reported facts and offered opinions that were upsetting to liberals.
They responded by issuing rebuttals to our articles and editorials in the Daily Sun, in classrooms and lecture halls -- JUST KIDDING!
The liberals systematically destroyed copies of our newspaper, harassed our advertisers, and staged demonstrations. Yes -- over a newspaper.
One of our greatest challenges was learning to restrain laughter in the face of sobbing co-eds.
Most fun was the hate mail. You either like hate mail or you don’t, and it turns out I love it. As Mao said, “It is a good thing, not a bad thing, to be attacked by the enemy.”
After a brief and little-lamented sojourn into practicing law, I’ve managed to make a career out of my hobby of annoying liberals.
Not by calling them names. (Well, maybe sometimes...) But by telling the truth about them.
I call out their woke idiocies, hypocritical and self-serving agendas, and ridiculous double standards.
Conservatives engaging in free speech is terribly frightening to the left.
Who can blame them? All the poor little darlings have to fight back with is the left’s hegemonic control of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the universities, the mainstream media, Wall Street, and the Deep State.
No wonder they want to censor conservatives!
I was kind of hoping COVID would shut down the universities. But no, they live on.
That’s why we need a lot more brave young conservatives speaking out. And what better place to find them than at today’s college and universities?
Not all college students are craven idiots.
There are plenty who don’t like what’s going on at their campuses today any more than I did in my day. They don’t identify themselves by their race, gender, or genitalia. They don’t vandalize statues of our Founding Fathers. They don’t believe men can be women. And they enjoy driving liberals nuts.
So, let’s find them! Let’s work with them and help them dig up the truth of what’s going on at their schools. Then let’s help them spread the word.
This is not a pipe dream.
Once they get a taste of exposing the truth about the campus left, many of them will like it. As with other Leadership Institute grads, they may make it a career!
Some will go on to become journalists, activists, or elected officials, standing up for our conservative beliefs.
In fact, it’s happening right now. Your special support will make it happen a whole lot more.
But they can’t do it alone. And you know who’s at the center of the resistance to campus leftist tyranny? A great conservative organization called the Leadership Institute. (LI for short)
I think the world of the Leadership Institute, and I’m eager to introduce you to them. I think you’ll like them as much as I do.
For more than 40 years, the Leadership Institute has trained and inspired new generations of conservative leaders. Like moi.
Before I took the editor’s job at the Cornell Review, I attended LI’s Student Publications School. There I learned what I needed to know to run a newspaper and find the stories that liberals wanted to hide.
Will you support my friends at the Leadership Institute as they help young conservatives dig up the truth of what’s going on at their schools?
Believe me, the Leadership Institute folks know their stuff. Their training programs not only teach conservatives the skills to take on the college left but give them a sense of camaraderie and fun in doing so.
The Leadership Institute has trained more than 230,700 conservatives over the years.
•    Dozens of LI grads, like me, tackle the left through the news media.
•    Today, 31 LI-trained conservatives currently serve in the U.S. Congress, and hundreds -- more than 300! -- serve in state legislatures.
•    Thousands more LI grads fight the good fight on campaigns, in conservative organizations, and in every walk of life where they uphold conservative principles.
There’s no other group quite like the Leadership Institute. Times have changed since my days in college, of course. But the Leadership Institute has kept up.
Nowadays the Leadership Institute doesn’t just help aspiring conservative journalists run their student papers like I did. Rather, they help those young reporters investigate and expose leftist abuses for the entire country to see.
Thanks to the internet, the Leadership Institute now has a tool to battle the left’s collegiate insanity. It’s a highly popular website called Campus Reform.
LI’s Campus Reform provides serious exposure for stories dug up by college students. Would that I’d had that kind of reach for my Cornell Review stories!
Because these Campus Reform stories are online, burning newspapers doesn’t work anymore. Poor dears.
Campus Reform delivers a one-two punch to two of the left’s biggest strongholds: college campuses and the news media.
•    Punch one: Campus Reform’s Correspondents expose the stupidity run amok at America’s colleges and universities. There’s a lot to expose.
•    Punch two: Campus Reform publishes the stories the mainstream media won’t touch. And Leadership Institute-trained reporters go on to become “real world” reporters themselves, where they do great work for years to come.
Right now, more than 130 Leadership Institute Campus Correspondents are on the job at colleges across the country.
These terrific young investigators uncover the ugly facts about the left on their campuses and on many others nearby. They get the facts out and win real victories again and again.
Once these Campus Correspondents write for the Campus Reform website, their stories often spread like wildfire, exposing the controversies that force schools to change.
Since 2014, Campus Reform reporting has achieved 218 victories over the lunatics of the campus left. That means foolish policies revoked and abusive professors and administrators punished or fired. There have even been reforms to protect the single greatest threat to liberalism: free speech.
And oh my, do the university lefties hate Campus Reform!
One leftist warned liberal professors to be careful: “Campus Reform has the plan, funding, and resources to ensure what you say at 3pm is on Fox News by 8pm!”
Will you help my Leadership Institute friends keep it up? Your support today will help their Campus Reform team expose and defeat the left now and for decades to come.
These victories are great. But to me, Campus Reform’s most lasting impact comes in inspiring more young conservatives to launch careers in the media and in our movement.
The LI team trains these students how to take stories to the next level -- giving them valuable media training, then setting them up with local and national television outlets to share what they’ve uncovered.
If you’ve seen Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity talking about the left’s collegiate outrages, chances are the story originated at Campus Reform.
More than 400 times a year, Campus Reform stories appear on Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, One America News Network, and local channels as well. Many times these stories get reported by the fresh-faced students who uncovered the stories to begin with.
Imagine the thrill of being a college student who gets put on the national news talking about an outrageous story you uncovered! Campus Reform makes it happen -- again and again.
That didn’t happen in my day. These kids have a big head start!
It’s a natural career progression to jump right into the news media once they graduate. And not the Fake News media either -- the real media, at places like The Wall Street Journal, Daily Caller, Breitbart News, Daily Wire, Spectator USA, Washington Examiner, The Federalist, Newsmax, and Fox News.
Some names you might recognize from those places and more: Lawrence Jones, Kat Timpf, Cabot Phillips, Kassy Dillon, Emma Meshell, Antonia Okafor, Gabby Orr, Peter Hasson, Emily Larsen, Will Witt, Amber Athey.
They’re alumni from Campus Reform’s hard-hitting journalism team.

Thank you,
Ann Coulter