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.
Even in 12 weeks, Connecticut can find a way to enable more people get mental-health help.
So proclaimed State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, who vowed to work with his colleagues to pass legislation to that effect during the “short session” that begins at the Capitol on Feb. 9.
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Jan 31, 2022 3:09 pm
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As a blizzard’s worth of snow melts into Lake Whitney, a 160-year-old dam is keeping Hamden and New Haven safe from flooding — and a host of politicians and Regional Water Authority employees are working to keep the historic dam safe from collapsing.
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Jan 27, 2022 8:50 am
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Kim Harris and Barbara Vereen speak out against the APT Foundation's planned move to Newhallville.
Four hundred and fifty people have signed their names in opposition to a methadone clinic’s planned move to Newhallville, with organizers just getting started.
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 24, 2022 3:31 pm
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Trevor Cadhey: When is mental health day not "skipping school?"
Hamden High Freshman Trevor Cadhey knows he’s allowed to take up to two “mental health days” off from school this year, but he isn’t sure under what circumstances he should use them.
School staffers and Board of Education members are grappling with the same question facing Cadhey and his peers — what is a mental health day? — while determining how to translate new state legislation concerning kids’ psychological health into district policy.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 17, 2022 10:38 am
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Cars lined on Butler Street for food pickup.
A crew showed up at a Shelton Avenue church not to chant prayers or hear a sermon — but to help a community stay fed and protected during a particularly tough stretch of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thomas Breen and Paul Bass |
Jan 14, 2022 2:33 pm
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NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey and Mayor Elicker at Friday's presser.
Five seventh-graders went to the hospital Friday after ingesting THC-laced candy at school, while a half-hour later a paraprofessional at a separate school was arrested for bringing a loaded handgun on the premises.
Among those at Wednesday's virtual meeting, clockwise from top left: State Rep. Toni Walker, Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris, State Rep. Robyn Porter, Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith.
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Former Elm City Prep building at 794 Dixwell, now owned by APT.
Newhallville spoke out with a clear voice: It doesn’t want a new methadone clinic in the neighborhood.
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.
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Jan 12, 2022 2:40 pm
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Samod Rankins and Gary Tinney: New Haven firefighters sounding the diversity alarm in Hamden FD.
Two “Firebirds” who pressed the fight for racial justice in New Haven’s fire department have set their sights across municipal lines — in hopes of using their lived experience to help Hamden’s department reflect the increasingly diverse town it serves.
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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 4:20 pm
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Driver Daniel Pizarro, Junta's volunteer Art Director, and Bruni Pizarro, Junta's executive director, delivering Covid tests.
Taina Cintron began to come down with a sore throat, stuffy nose, and cough. Cintron, a 20-year-old college student, was unsure about what to do with her grandmother coming home the next day from the holidays. Results from the PCR test she took would not come back for “another eight days”; her boss wanted a test result before returning to work.
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Jan 11, 2022 4:17 pm
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La estudiante universitaria Taina Cintron comenzó a sufrir dolor de garganta, congestión nasal y tos. Cintron, una estudiante universitaria de 20 años, no estaba segura de qué hacer con su abuela que regresaba a casa al día siguiente de las vacaciones. Los resultados de la prueba de PCR que tomó no volverían por “otros ocho días”; su jefe quería un resultado antes de volver al trabajo.
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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.
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.
Elizabeth Street resident Marcus Pearson in front of 794 Dixwell: Methadone clinic relocation is "a good idea" for neighbors in need of treatment.
A methadone clinic and healthcare nonprofit plans to relocate from Long Wharf to Newhallville, after purchasing a Dixwell Avenue former middle school building for $2.45 million.
