Coronavirus Pandemic

A spokesperson for Bristol Hospital said they’re eliminating over 30 positions due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bristol Health said 10 of those roles were presently filled, the majority of which were management. Because of environmental and financial pressures such as labor and supply cost inflation, the healthcare system d...

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots.

New daily Covid cases used to be an easy way to track the pandemic’s severity. Today, you might want to pay attention to a different set of numbers.

Parents may soon have the option to vaccinate children six months to 4-years-old against COVID-19. On Friday, the FDA authorized Pfizer and Moderna’s shots for the youngest age group. Now it heads to the CDC for the agency’s recommendations. The Connecticut Department of Public Health said those doses are set to arrive in the state on Monday. Assum...

U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.

Biden has often been tested more frequently, either because of close calls with people who have subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 or because of his travel schedule.

The state has surpassed a gruesome milestone of 11,000 COVID-19 deaths among Connecticut residents. “Connecticut was hit hard in the first few months of the pandemic, but we have done everything we can to keep people safe from the very real impacts following different waves and variants,” Gov. Ned Lamont said in a statement. With the mi...

In 2020, COVID-19 reinfections were considered rare. In 2021, breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals could occur, but again, the risk was low.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America’s pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 81-year-old Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, was experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement Wednesday from the National Institutes of He...

COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer Wednesday.

A newly developed blood test that measures a specific immune response in the body could help doctors gauge how much protection a person has against COVID-19, according to a new study.

All inpatient and outpatient surgeries at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford have been canceled because of staffing shortages, according to a Trinity Health of New England spokesperson. The spokesperson said staffing shortages continue to impact the surgical services department amid the pandemic. As a result, the hospital system has temporarily ...

Connecticut’s seven-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate slightly increased Tuesday and is above 7.5%. State data shows that the positivity rate currently stands at 7.69%, which is an increase of 0.12% since Monday. Gov. Ned Lamont’s office said there were 3,482 positive tests out of 45,261 in the last week and the number of people hosp...