Ned Lamont actually said...

"Right now, all of our higher ed institutions mandated vaccines for everybody. Overwhelmingly, people are complying with that."

"I`ll tell you that through encouragement and incentives, we got about 88 of our adults vaccinated. We got the overwhelming majority of our nurses and teachers vaccinated, but that wasn`t good enough, ..."

"One thing has come crystal clear to me why it's important that we have this emergency declaration is, it gives us the opportunity to get more testing capacity faster for all the people of the state of..."

"Whatever I'm doing with emergency powers is specifically related to COVID, nothing else."