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Editor’s Note: Yale University responded to NBC Connecticut’s request for a comment on our story after the story was published. In part, Yale said: “Yale spends over $700 million annually directly on New Haven. This includes compensation to New Haven residents who work at the university and many programs and initiatives that we support throughout the city. Yale University’s...

Mayor Justin Elicker said 60% of his city’s total real estate is tax-exempt, at a value of $8.5 billion. Almost half of that, he said, belongs to Yale University.

Yale physician Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, whom President-elect Joe Biden selected to lead his task force on COVID-19 equity, on Tuesday said the heavy hit Black and Latinx Americans have taken from the virus is not a coincidence. “On this team, you will be heard, you will be counted and you will be valued,” Nunez-Smith said, referring to marginalized groups.

“In general, yes, employers are able to mandate the vaccine when it becomes available with, of course, a bunch of caveats.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci will be the 2021 Yale School of Public Health commencement speaker, the school announced on Twitter Friday. No further details have been provided on the event.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Thursday that even though a vaccine was imminent, Americans needed to double down on public health measures. “We’re not talking about shutting down the country,” he said. “We’re not talking about shutting down. We’re talking about intensifying the simple public health measures that we all talk about, mask...

Yale University has announced new COVID-19 restrictions, including banning residential students from leaving campus until the Thanksgiving break. In an announcement posted Friday, school officials said they have been watching the increased spread of the coronavirus in New Haven, and hope the move helps contain the number of cases on campus. Students who live off-campus are only allowed to visit…

Students at Connecticut State Colleges and Universities are the first to try out a new contact tracing app.

A Yale University professor will co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, according to NBC News. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith will be one of three task force co-chairs. She is an associate professor of medicine at Yale University. She will help advise President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “It’s always exciting to see someone you know get a leadership...

A Yale University professor will co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, according to NBC News.

A Yale University professor will co-chair President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, according to NBC News. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine at Yale, will be one of three task force co-chairs. Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler will also be co-chairs of the task force, according to NBC News. The...

Quinnipiac University’s Wesley Renfro, political science professor, gives more perspective on Joe Biden’s projected win.

Political leaders from around the world took to social media to congratulate President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on their election win

Yale University has raised its COVID-19 alert level from yellow to orange and is putting new restrictions in place to prevent the spread of the virus. Yale announced Friday evening that they had identified 20 new COVID-19 cases among students who live in Davenport, Hopper and Saybrook colleges. Contact tracers believe the cases are likely related to each other and…

The state of Connecticut has rolled back the reopening plan from Phase 3 to Phase 2.1.

“When cases go up, we tighten the faucet a little bit, we shut down people’s opportunities to interact with each other so much,” said New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker after a leading indicator showed another spike in COVID-19 cases. COVID-19 testing shows an average of eight cases per day per 100,000 people in New Haven. Recent sewage surveillance, which can...

Testing of wastewater in the New Haven area has shown a recent spike in COVID-19 concentration in the sewage, which could be an indicator of a subsequent spike in cases in the coming days.

A group of scientists at Yale University are using wastewater from sewage plants and sewers to predict were new coronavirus outbreaks might pop-up, giving communities a chance to stop them before they start

Members of Yale University’s men’s hockey team who are in the New Haven area are in quarantine and the school is raising its COVID-19 alert status after 18 members of the team tested positive for coronavirus. All varsity athletic teams and intramural programs have ceased in-person training activities for at least the coming week and some athletic facilities, including...

The men’s hockey team at Yale is in quarantine after 18 members tested positive for COVID-19.