Urgent centers

The other centers are at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, The Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut in New London and Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury.

At the Aug. 2 opening ceremony, Gov. Ned Lamont recalled the daily reports on the calls to the state’s 211 line over the early months of the pandemic. He noted a shift in questions to the center.

“Those first couple of months, it was: ‘Am I going to die?'” Lamont said. “And then as time went on, it was calls more likely to be from young people saying: ‘How am I going to survive?’”

As the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic began in Connecticut, health care providers reported a growing