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BEST OF 2022: Long COVID persists, but doctors are working on treatments
With a growing number of people getting long COVID, treatment programs have launched in CT and elsewhere to help people manage the symptoms.
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BEST OF 2022: Demand for nurses is urgent. CT’s colleges and universities can’t keep up.
CT needs 3,000 new nurses a year, and only 2,000 graduate — and many of them leave the state. Worsening matters is a shortage of instructors.
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BEST OF 2022: As COVID hangs on, the ‘new normal’ is leaving many behind
Some who are immunocompromised or who care for an at-risk loved one are at higher risk now as COVID restrictions begin to fall away.
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BEST OF 2022: As hospital systems grow in Connecticut, rural patients lose services
In CT, rural hospitals have shut down intensive care and labor-and-delivery services as their health systems have consolidated operations.
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BEST OF 2022: Connecticut’s roads are deadlier than ever. Figuring out why is complicated.
Since the start of the pandemic, the number of people dying in traffic crashes in Connecticut has surged and shows no signs of slowing.
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Lawmakers outline health policy priorities for upcoming session
Pressure is mounting on legislators to tackle the escalating cost of health care, to expand access to care and more in the upcoming session.
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CT sees rise in deadly overdoses involving animal tranquilizer
Xylazine, a tranquilizer used on horses and cows, is showing up in more and more fatal overdose cases in Connecticut, officials said.
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Legislators: Day Kimball takeover could limit health care in region
16 Democrats are worried that Covenant Health, a Catholic health care system, could eliminate some services in Northeast Connecticut.
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CT COVID hospitalizations are up nearly 60% from a month ago
Health officials are urging people to don masks indoors and consider the well-being of others as they go about the seasonal bustle.
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Deidre Gifford appointed head of CT health strategy office
Andrea Barton Reeves, of the CT Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Authority, will replace Gifford at the Department of Social Services.
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Legislators pledge to tackle health care costs in upcoming session
Thursday’s hearing was prompted by double-digit rate increases sought and approved this year for many fully insured health plans.
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ConnectiCare to pull out of CT’s fully insured small group market
About 20,000 people are covered by ConnectiCare’s fully insured small group plans. ConnectiCare has 3,476 members through Access Health CT.
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Flu season in CT coming earlier, hitting harder this year
Leaders at children’s hospitals worry that more flu cases will make the crowding situation worse in intensive care and emergency departments.
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CT children’s hospitals, swamped with RSV, brace for flu cases
Flu cases are rising at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital as RSV cases already strain capacity.