Coronavirus Pandemic

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization’s first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The anniversary on Saturday has health experts taking stock of successes and failures. The coronavirus has killed nearly 7 million worldwide and appears here to stay. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory dropl...

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The 419-0 vote Friday was a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. It was final approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Debate was brief...

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand Connecticut’s premium pay program and make an additional category of essential workers eligible for the one-time bonus. The program was established by lawmakers last year as a way to say “thank you” to the people who worked during the height of the pandemic. The rollout caused hea...

After three years since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Connecticut, there are still questions about where the response to the pandemic goes from here. “I’m thankful we are going back to normal and the right direction,” said Al Johnson of New Britain. That’s led to a decision to potentially end the national Public Health Emergency in May......

“I can tell you our students are resilient, our educators are resilient,” Connecticut State Department of Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker said. “We rose to the challenge, so we know that we can,” Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez said. Wednesday marked three years since the first COVID-19 case was con...

A new report from the Connecticut Hospital Association shows that the pandemic has left a huge financial impact on hospitals and the healthcare system. The association determined that this is mainly due to a growing challenge of dramatically rising costs and inflation, workforce shortages and treating sicker patients. 2022 was the worst year financ...

Wednesday is a solemn day in our state. It marks exactly three years since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Connecticut. Since then, nearly a million more cases have been diagnosed, and thousands of people have died. However, before there were mass testing sites, before businesses and schools were closed and way before a vaccine was intr...

President Joe Biden’s administration is asking Congress to agree to pay more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs.

FBI Director Chris Wray said the FBI believes Covid probably originated from a “potential lab incident” in Wuhan.

The intelligence community is still in disagreement about the origins of Covid.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.

A growing online conspiracy theory is using the tagline “died suddenly” to baselessly claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.

Under the Affordable Care Act, most Americans would still get their Covid shots for free once the vaccine program goes commercial.