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Nov 24, 2020 5:20 pm
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Clockwise from top: YNHH Spokesperson Vin Petrini; CEO Marna Borgstrom; Chief Clinical Officer Tom Balcezak.
Covid-19 hospitalizations have doubled across the Yale New Haven Health System over the past two weeks, hospital officials reported on Tuesday afternoon.
They also expressed optimism about prospective vaccines that might start to get distributed as early as mid-December.
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Nov 24, 2020 10:51 am
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Yesenia Rivera at January ed board meeting.
School board President Yesenia Rivera won a confirmation vote to serve another four years, after alders grilled her about children left behind by online learning, and about lengthy, contentious, and chaotic meetings held under her leadership.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 23, 2020 10:49 am
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Salwa Abdussabur.
Film, music, theater, art, activism: on Friday night all five were intertwined and illuminated during New Haven’s inaugural Black Haven Film Festival. Presented by CTCORE — Organize Now, the festival was originally planned for that night in person at Science Park. Due to Covid restrictions, it became a virtual event continuing onward with its original intent to celebrate Black art and representation with five short films, interviews with the filmmakers, and a musical performance, each shining its own ray of light on to the proceedings and creating a collective glow.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 20, 2020 2:36 pm
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YNHH’s main campus on York St.
As hospital intensive care units (ICUs) around the country stretch to their limits during the current surge in Covid-19, Yale New Haven Hospital is “busy” but still has room — with 80 percent of its overall ICU capacity filled, and the ability to “flex up” if necessary.
Local musician Smitty featured in the city’s Mask Up campaign, among growing efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
(Updated)—City Hall has pulled the plug on a planned “mask census” to track how many people are wearing Covid-protective face coverings — and then figure out how to get more to comply.
When 12th-grader Krista Miller heard a stressed friend joke about dropping out of remote school and not being able to go to college, she knew something had to change.
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Nov 19, 2020 10:37 am
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With the Music a la Carte Series, the New Haven-based Kallos Chamber Music Series has figured out how to deliver short, online bursts of chamber-music joy — enough to enliven the coldest Monday night and still leave time to make dinner.
A Special Education class in session at Bishop Woods School in October.
After Friday, Nov. 20, no students will be in any New Haven Public Schools buildings.
Superintendent Iline Tracey sent out this update by email on Tuesday afternoon. She announced that the district had decided to move its small, in-person Special Education program online-only after Friday.
Building Official Turcio on a Covid safety crew inspection.
If your employees don’t wear face masks to work or if you host a party with more people than allowed by the state’s reopening guidelines, then watch out: After one warning, it’ll cost you between $100 and $500.
The mayor called for the state to allow the city to roll back to the Phase 1 economic shutdown — including a ban on indoor dining — as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the region, with the city’s current case rate topping 21 per 100,000.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 16, 2020 4:23 pm
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Testing at Murphy’s former Day Street Park site.
A Greenwich doctor who sparked controversy by cashing in on New Haven’s Covid-19 testing has seen his problems and fights broaden as new revelations emerge about his practice.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 16, 2020 11:32 am
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The Right Offs on the roof!
As the city braced itself for the possibility of another shutdown, Cafe Nine decided to raise a safely distanced ruckus one more time with one more roof show, starring another group of local rock ‘n’ rollers, The Right Offs. Saturday night saw the band take to that stage three floors up that Dust Hat had previously christened back in September under much warmer conditions.
The Boys and Girls Club of New Haven on Columbus Avenue.
Yale New Haven Health has set up a weekly Covid-19 testing site in the Hill neighborhood at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven, open every Monday through December.
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Rabhya Mehrotra |
Nov 15, 2020 3:10 pm
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Aryal marks Diwali.
With temples closed, fewer stores open, and gatherings discouraged, New Haveners had to celebrate Diwali a little differently this year. They found a way.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Nov 15, 2020 10:36 am
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Goeler: Painful, needed decision.
Hamden schools — which have had success with hybrid learning — will nevertheless move to entirely-remote classes starting Nov. 23 until Jan. 19 because of the statewide spike in Covid-19 cases.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 13, 2020 2:09 pm
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University of New Haven students can’t have friends visit them in their dorm rooms. Quinnipiac University students are being sent home for attending off-campus parties. SCSU is requiring RAs to double-swipe students’ IDs before allowing them inside buildings.
Those latest measures have failed to stop Covid-19 outbreaks, at least at the first two schools. They do show some of the different ways campuses are struggling to figure out how to keep the pandemic in check.
Three mayoral appointees — Health Director Maritza Bond, city spokesperson Gage Frank, and Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Rebecca Bombero — have been in 14-day self-quarantine, working digitally from home.
Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin and Kermit Carolina were ready to give an Augusta Lewis Troup School student everything he needed to connect with his remote classes.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 11, 2020 1:53 pm
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YNHH on York St.: There are now 125 Covid-positive inpatients in New Haven.
Covid hospitalizations across the Yale New Haven Health system have more than doubled in two weeks, reaching numbers last seen in mid-March, and with a second peak expected by the end of December.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Nov 11, 2020 11:46 am
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Ridge Hill teachers: School feels safe, but we’re ready for remote.
Hamden schools have figured out how to operate safely in a pandemic — but it looks like fast-rising Covid-19 cases will force them to move to all-remote learning anyway starting Nov. 23.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 11, 2020 10:54 am
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Winter may be coming, but Gorman Bechard and NHDocs have no plans to hibernate. Instead, they are debuting a monthly online series offering a new documentary feature to fans hungry for more after a successful online festival this past summer.
The Omni Hotel on Temple Street. Below: Tuesday night’s union-led virtual presser.
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As she struggles through months of unemployment during the pandemic, Omni Hotel housekeeper Pauline Oglesby said she needs an assurance that she’ll be able to return to her job as soon as her former employer starts hiring again.
So she applauds a proposed new “worker’s recall” law pitched by the mayor’s office and backed by the local hotel worker’s union
