by | Aug 29, 2023 7:48 pm | Comments (10)
Covid cases are on the rise — including for Mayor Justin Elicker, who tested positive on Saturday, is still working remotely, and spent the weekend fighting a fever, cough, and stuffy nose.
by | May 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (15)
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Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
by | Dec 23, 2022 10:09 am | Comments (6)
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Parade in October marking Long Wharf Theatre's office move to Audubon St.
(Arts Analysis) We’re back, but we’re not.
That’s the message I got over and over again in 2022, from artists, organizations, and audiences — as an arts reporter, a working musician, and someone who’s part of the informal network of people giving touring musicians a place to stay while they’re on the road.
by | Oct 26, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (11)
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Board of Ed Prez Rivera: Zoom meetings = more accessible.
The Board of Education will continue to meet online only for the foreseeable future — as the board president defended virtual gatherings as more accessible to the public, while a fellow board member criticized the move as less accountable to teachers, students, parents, and staff.
by | Aug 11, 2022 3:48 pm | Comments (9)
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The SalivaDirect Covid testing site on the Green, which serves a handful of uninsured patients each day.
After a decrease in federal funding, New Haven’s largest community health care provider and only hospital system have started to charge uninsured patients $75 for Covid-19 tests.
Continue reading ‘Free Covid Test Options Narrow For Uninsured’
by | Jul 8, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (6)
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After a countdown from three, Kevin Mackenzie took a bottle of champagne — and smashed it against the side of The Cannon, the new combination sports pub-plant-based eatery on Dwight Street.
“We thought,” Mackenzie said, “this was a little more our style.”
Continue reading ‘The Cannon Smashes Open, Dispenses With The Ribbon’
by | Jun 29, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (3)
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and SBA District Director Catherine Marx.
Chabaso Bakery offered Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Connecticut Director Catherine Marx a taste of their manufacturing processes, their pandemic recovery effort, and, of course, some fresh bread, during a tour of the business’s James Street headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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by | Apr 14, 2022 12:13 pm | Comments (6)
Monday night's Finance Committee meeting.
Invest in safe, affordable, owner-occupied housing.
Committee alders heard that plea again and again and again during their first public hearing on the Elicker Administration’s proposed $53 million federal-aid spending plan.
Continue reading ‘Housing Calls Resonate At Covid-$ Hearing’
by | Apr 13, 2022 2:02 pm | Comments (6)
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Newly appointed school administrators.
New leadership is on its way to Conte West Hills Magnet and King-Robinson Magnet Schools, as well as in central school district offices.
Continue reading ‘School Promotions OK'd; Mask Mandate Maintained’
by | Apr 4, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (20)
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New Haven's pandemic voice of authority, Thomas Balcezak, at Monday's briefing.
If you’re eligible to get a second Covid-19 booster shot, go get it. Especially if you’re over 50 and have an underlying medical condition like diabetes that puts you at “high risk” of contracting a severe case of Covid.
Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) Chief Clinical Officer Thomas Balcezak offered that advice during the regional hospital system’s top doctor’s latest assessment of the ongoing pandemic.
by | Mar 26, 2022 9:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Ricky D. Evans, owner of Ricky D's Rib Shack, at a press conference for "New Haven Restaurant Week(s): Remixed" on Friday afternoon.
Restaurant week will return to New Haven Sunday for an extended two-week run, featuring an expanded variety of deals at over 50 eateries.
by | Mar 22, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (0)
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett Tuesday ended the last vestige of the town’s Covid-19 mask mandate by allowing people to enter municipal buildings without covering their faces, effective Wednesday.
by | Mar 17, 2022 9:55 am | Comments (2)
The latest analysis of New Haven area wastewaster shows Covid-19 cases trending a bit upwards after a steep decline, but still 45 times lower than during the recent Omicron-driven peak.
by | Mar 16, 2022 12:35 pm | Comments (2)
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A Covid test at former Murphy clinic in Day Street park.
A federal judge has thrown out six of eight counts in a Covid-test-reimbursement lawsuit filed by Dr. Murphy (pictured) against Cigna.
Doctors can’t sue insurers under the CARES Act for withholding Covid-test reimbursements, a federal judge ruled — as part of a broader order that dismissed much of a lawsuit filed by pandemic “profiteer” Dr. Steven Murphy against the insurance giant Cigna.
by | Mar 15, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven Public School’s (NHPS) will focus attention on its students’, educators’, and parents’ wellbeing for a “day of healing.”
by | Mar 8, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (2)
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YNHH top doc Thomas Balcezak on Tuesday.
Covid cases continue to drop precipitously, as Yale New Haven Health has only 58 patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in all seven locations in Connecticut and Rhode Island — down from an Omicron-wave high of 767.
by | Mar 7, 2022 3:53 pm | Comments (15)
Chris Murphy and Saad Omer Monday at Yale med school roundtable.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is looking for Congress to allocate $45 million toward public health communication efforts — funding that local pandemic experts said is sorely needed to fight a web of anti-vax and anti-mask conspiracy theories.
Continue reading ‘Murphy, Public Health Crew Seek To Combat Health Misniformation’
by | Feb 25, 2022 3:43 pm | Comments (25)
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Maritza Bond: Numbers look good.
New Haveners can see each other smile inside a store or office again without breaking the law starting on March 7, as city officials announced an upcoming partial end to an indoor mask mandate.
by | Feb 24, 2022 6:00 pm | Comments (9)
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett repealed the town’s mask mandate, except for in town-owned buildings and schools, effective Friday at 12:01 a.m.
by | Feb 21, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (23)
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Leslie Blatteau.
Teachers union President Leslie Blatteau delivered these remarks during a Board of Education public comment period.
In one month, we will arrive at the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic permanently impacting our school system, our community, and the way we teach and learn. It is clear that so much has changed. Ask anyone who is working in our schools, and they will tell you: the unprecedented exhaustion and anxiety, and the erosion of trust that is central to the health of any organization, are causing people to question why they show up to school everyday.
Continue reading ‘2 Years Into Pandemic, We Need To Move Forward Together’
by and | Feb 17, 2022 5:20 pm | Comments (11)
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Mayor Elicker (right) with Health Director Bond and social services director Dalal on Thursday.
Only 19 out of 625 people who received mishandled Covid-19 vaccines from New Haven’s health department have returned to the city’s clinic for do-over shots so far, city officials reported Thursday afternoon as they defended their handling of the screw-up.
The update, explanation, and defense took place at a press conference held by the entrance to the city health department at 54 Meadow St.
by | Feb 16, 2022 4:48 pm | Comments (7)
Even as Covid cases drop across the city and state, Yale has seen an “unprecedented number of undergraduates” test positive for the novel coronavirus — largely because of unmasked on- and off-campus parties.
Continue reading ‘Covid Cases Spike At Yale Amid Decline Elsewhere’
by | Feb 15, 2022 10:16 am | Comments (6)
Do-over Central: Outside 54 Meadow St. vax clinic.
Shaquan Browne thought he was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as he prepared to head back to his home country of Guyana later this week.
Then he got a call from the city health department, letting him know that there was a problem with the last vaccine dose he received — and that he needed to come back to the clinic for another shot in the arm.
by | Feb 14, 2022 5:00 pm | Comments (5)
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The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, set to resume this March 13.
Parade Committee Chair Joanne Conlan (center), U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, and Mayor Elicker on Monday.
After a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus — and with the city’s Covid numbers “going in a really good direction at this point” — New Haven’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade is back on.
Continue reading ‘St. Patrick's Day Parade Back On For First Time Since 2019’
by | Feb 14, 2022 1:12 pm | Comments (10)
Bearer of good news: Wastewater analyst Jordan Peccia reporting latest figures Monday on WNHH FM.
New Haven’s Covid-19 rate has by one measure dropped about 96 percent since the height of the Omicron wave and is continuing to fall.
Might it be time to retire mask mandates for now?