Mayor Elicker: 100s need new shots because of storage snafu.
The Elicker Administration is now recommending that some 650 people get re-vaccinated against Covid-19 because the previous doses they received from the city had been improperly stored.
Mayor Justin Elicker and Health Director Maritza Bond revealed that information Friday at a 4 p.m. press conference, and in a follow-up email press release sent out after 11 p.m.
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Feb 3, 2022 9:00 am
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Travel nurse Coltan Jacobson at YNHH: Plans change; staying in town.
Coltan Jacobson drove 22 hours from Minnesota to New Haven to take care of Covid-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital. Soon after he arrived, he got Covid.
Paras union leader Hyclis Williams: Double standard seen.
Classroom aides say they’re getting the raw end of the stick — being told to quarantine at home but not necessarily getting paid for the time, unlike teachers.
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Jan 19, 2022 3:24 pm
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The Elicker Administration's proposed $53M ARPA spending plan.
City Economic Development Administrator Mike Piscitelli at least week's ARPA presser.
The mayor has formally submitted to the Board of Alders for review a proposed $53 million spending plan that would direct a bulk of the city’s remaining federal pandemic-relief aid towards a hodgepodge of housing, vocational technical education, youth engagement, business support, and climate resiliency initiatives.
Depressed by all the official statistics showing Omicron surging out of control? A more precise measure — drawn from New Haven’s wastewater — suggests the Covid-19 variant may have already peaked and is actually declining.
City development chief Mike Piscitelli (right) at Wednesday's presser about a new $53 million federal-aid spending plan.
The Elicker Administration unveiled a proposed $53 million plan that would direct a bulk of the city’s remaining federal pandemic-relief aid towards a host of housing, employment, youth engagement, and climate resiliency initiatives.
Those include boosting vo-tech education in the public schools, expanding downpayment assistance for homebuyers, funding energy efficiency building upgrades, and creating a new “land bank” to purchase properties before megalandlords get there first.
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Jan 12, 2022 1:01 pm
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Yale New Haven Health Chief Clinical Officer Thomas Balcezak.
The number of Yale New Haven Health patients hospitalized with Covid has surged by nearly 40 percent over the past two weeks — as the regional hospital system continues to struggle with staff shortages and as the city prepares to distribute thousands of additional at-home test kits and N95 masks during the ongoing Omicron-induced surge.
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Jan 11, 2022 1:40 pm
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More masks. More tests. The option to go remote — just for a few weeks until the Covid-19 Omicron-variant surge passes.
Teachers are pressing those requests at a statewide “wear-black” event planned for Wednesday. Some students and board members joined in those requests at Monday night’s New Haven Board of Education meeting. And New Haven teachers union President Leslie Blatteau went into depth on the issue — and its place in the current national political dialogue — during a Tuesday radio appearance.
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Jan 10, 2022 8:00 pm
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Mourners Monday at first-ever Toad's funeral.
The line on York Street went halfway down the block on Monday afternoon as friends and family gathered to bid farewell to New Haven music legend Rohn Lawrence, whose visiting hours and funeral service were held at Toad’s Place, the stage on which he’d performed countless times.
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett will be able to “show up” safely for a scheduled meeting as planned Monday morning, even though she has tested positive for Covid-19.
Alajah Tucker: "It feels like I'm just wasting time at school."
Despite bus driver shortages and dozens of absent teachers, New Haven students like Amil Soweol and Tylanna McCrea managed to get class time on Wednesday — at least part of the day.
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Jan 5, 2022 3:55 pm
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City emergency management chief Rick Fontana with at-home two-test kit.
The city plans to give out roughly 8,000 at-home Covid-19 testing kits to New Haven residents only at two mass distribution sites on Thursday — as the Omciron variant continues to knock teachers, police officers, firefighters, and school bus drivers out of work.
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Jan 5, 2022 9:41 am
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Cars lined up for Tuesday distribution.
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Pablo Colon, daughter Angelica with tests they needed last month.
Desperate Amazon workers, exposed family members, and hundreds of others jammed the streets outside a shuttered Hamden High School late Tuesday afternoon in hopes of getting their hands on the last batch for now of town-provided at-home Covid-19 tests.
Firefighters, cops, and teachers continued to scramble to fill gaps and keep government working Tuesday as the state’s Covid-19 infection rate hit 23.85 percent and the number of hospitalized patients in Greater New Haven soared to 539 amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
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Jan 3, 2022 6:49 pm
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Principal Dan Levy: This isn't March 2020.
Administrators filled in to keep classrooms running and lunches served Monday, bus routes were combined, and teachers all received masks, as the New Haven and Hamden school districts resolved to remain open even as some suburban districts temporarily pulled the plug.
The hope remained by day’s end that kids can remain in schools despite the fact that Connecticut posted a record 21.5 percent Covid-19 test-positivity rate.
Meanwhile, New Haven’s teachers union president applauded the efforts to fill gaps but questioned whether they’ll prove “sustainable” — or if Connecticut should allow some remote learning to count as official school days.
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Jan 1, 2022 6:04 pm
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State Superior Court Judge Robin Wilson swears in Mayor Justin Elicker to a second two-year term: Flood of federal, state dollars presents opportunity, challenge in 2022.
Absence, loss, pain, and possibility loomed as 33 elected officials were inaugurated to new terms Saturday in a video-streamed inauguration ceremony upended by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The public couldn’t take part — as a technical snafu canceled even the musical guests’ planned prerecorded performances.
