A pat on the back for Connecticut: Sixty percent of those 16 and older have received at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. We’re leading the country — go, nutmeggers!

But we still haven’t reached the coveted stage of herd immunity, and there’s a long way to go.

Mark May 19th on your calendar: that’s when all remaining Covid restrictions will be lifted for performing arts venues. It’s also a good time to consider becoming a member of The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center.

Hartford400 is a 15-year plan to transform the capital city’s region into a more sustainable, prosperous, equitable, mobile, and vibrant area. Our MCG office is in the heart of downtown and we’re rooting for all this and more for Hartford.

If you’re over 65 you’re 400 times more likely to die of Covid than someone in their 20s. If you also have a chronic disease, your risk is even higher.

But more than a year since Covid-19 spread throughout the world, scientists still don’t know the reason why the disease is so much deadlier for those populations. A team of researchers from UConn Health and our client ,The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), plan on changing that.

Local news, which is mostly driven by newspaper reporting, has been financially suffering for several years. Then Covid came and put local media in critical condition.

From layoffs to closings, newsrooms are being hollowed out and diminished. Just take a look at what’s happening to the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper, The Hartford Courant.

Local news, which is mostly driven by newspaper reporting, has been financially suffering for several years. Then Covid came and put local media in critical condition.

From layoffs to closings, newsrooms are being hollowed out and diminished. Just take a look at what’s happening to the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper, The Hartford Courant.

Lanny Davis, special counsel and spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton on legal issues, gives this advice to public relations professionals: “Tell it early, tell it all, tell it yourself.”

Using those three metrics, Jen Psaki, White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, has been exemplary in her first three months.

There’s a saying in business: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

This philosophy shouldn’t apply only to profit earnings and customer retention. Measuring your communication efforts, specifically social media, needs to be a priority if your organization values growth over stagnation.

While Gov. Ned Lamont earned a reputation for being a leader in the Covid crisis, it’s clear he’s ready to take on another threat: climate change.

Lamont has several key legislative proposals that call for reaching a zero-carbon electricity supply by 2040, reducing emissions, streamlining climate adaptations, and protecting vulnerable communities from energy shifts. He notched a small win recently when the Environment Committee passed his bill to formally adopt the regional Transportation and Climate Initiative Program, now sending the legislation to the state Senate for further action.

As part of our work with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, MCG has been creating a tremendous amount of informational content around the Covid-19 vaccine. This includes an array of visuals.

With the vaccine being rapidly approved and produced, it’s only natural that the speed of its production could lead to questions. With this mind, our objective was to answer questions about who makes the vaccines, how they work to combat the virus, and why you should receive the shot.