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.
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Amid ghosts, Jason Buddington hangs out on Congress after APT visit.
Jason Buddington had just picked up his bottles of methadone for the week, and kept an eye out for temptations that could threaten to return him to a life on the streets.
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Apr 1, 2022 10:57 am
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Josh Watkins: "Help is on the way!"
The director of New Haven’s Community Soup Kitchen is challenging the owner of two natural foods stores in a race to represent Hamden in the state legislature — setting up the latest potential face-off between the two wings of the town’s Democratic Party.
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Quinnipiac School of Nursing Dean Lisa O'Connor and SCSU College of Health and Human Services Dean Sandra Bulmer sign the new YNHH partnership agreement at Thursday's presser.
Four colleges and universities from across the region signed onto a new partnership with Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) in a bid to boost the number of nursing school graduates amidst a healthcare workforce crisis.
Four of the five Hill corner stores that city and state shuttered.
Ned Woods: Still "a lot of choices" in the neighborhood.
Walking home on Sylvan Avenue, Ned Woods saw that the corner store where he “plays the numbers” was closed — with a large red “Stop-Work Order” sign taped across the front door.
Thanks to a city-state sweep of problem businesses in the Hill Tuesday, Woods would have to seek out another spot in the neighborhood to place his daily bet.
Imam Saladin Hasan at anti-APT-plan rally: "We are pro-help."
The East Rock Community Management Team voted to oppose a proposed methadone clinic in the next-door Newhallville neighborhood, after passionate discussion over whether such a stance would further stigmatize people with opioid use disorder.
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Mar 28, 2022 1:21 pm
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City community resilience director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo (second from left) with social services chief Mehul Dalal, Rev. Abraham Hernandez, and Continuum of Care CEO Patti Walker.
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New uniforms and logos for COMPASS team.
The Elicker Administration’s proposed non-cop emergency response initiative has a new name, new uniforms, a new subcontractor charged with sending out social workers to certain 911 calls — as well as $2 million of newly approved federal support.
What the long-delayed project still does not yet have, however, is a new start date for when its pilot program will actually begin.
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Mar 25, 2022 12:33 pm
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Gold and Gateway community cut ribbon on new center.
While helping to cut the ribbon on a newly renamed Gateway Community College (GCC) counseling and wellness center, alum Kelsey Snedeker thought back to when she lost both her adoptive and biological mothers a few months apart — and how Gateway’s wellness center got her through school and her loss.
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Mar 24, 2022 4:05 pm
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15-year-old Jamarion Lalanne: Tired of the fighting.
While Hamden High juniors were taking their SATs on Thursday, other students displaced from their usual classes crowded the school’s auditorium — until a fist fight involving two students sent an older staff member to the hospital.
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Mar 23, 2022 5:58 pm
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Seniors turn out Wednesday to hear from town officials and Hamden Plaza's owner about shopping-center safety.
Miller Memorial Library employee Kathy Galasso wasn’t at work Wednesday — but she sent a public explanation to her boss and 100 fellow seniors from her “uncomfortable hospital bed” where she is currently recovering from two pelvic fractures sustained during a broad daylight carjacking at the Hamden Plaza.
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.
Lux Rosa outside Edgewood School at dismissal time: no Dalmations in sight.
There was a reported sighting of a famous fictional London heiress at a New Haven public school, amid an effort to help students and teachers take a day to chill out during the cruelest academic year in memory.
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.
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Mar 16, 2022 12:35 pm
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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.
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Mar 11, 2022 3:52 pm
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The Power In A Shower van.
Two days after losing her housing, DeeDee DeStefano found a place to wash off right in the Fair Haven neighborhood where she spends most of her time — thanks to a mobile van newly contracted by the city to provide showers, along with wraparound services, to unsheltered New Haveners.
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12-year-old Sarah and friend Sloan at "Unmask our kids" rally.
Hamden Public Schools will lift their mask mandate on March 21.
That was the straightforward outcome of a rowdy three-hour meeting that began with a precautionary police presence, proceeded with raspberry-and-shouting arguments over race and politics and bullying, and concluded with cries of “Abuse of power!”
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Mar 8, 2022 3:42 pm
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After years of outsourcing abandoned and abused pets to North Haven, Hamden is exploring joining forces with New Haven to establish a regional animal shelter.
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Mar 8, 2022 3:36 pm
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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.
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.
