While regionalizing health care improves the bottom line for Connecticut’s hospitals, it leaves patients farther away from medical care.
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Yale-led study seeks to transform heart disease diagnoses in women
Standard medical testing for heart disease is based on research on men, but women often have different symptoms that go unrecognized.
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As mass vaccination sites close, focus turns to mobile clinics to reach targeted groups
As vaccination rates have slowed, mass vaccination sites have closed while the state shifted its focus to smaller clinics.
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COVID hospitalizations rise at Yale; Younger people account for more cases
The state’s COVID test positivity rate on Tuesday increased to 5.26%.
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Connecticut’s health information exchange signs 25 providers
Yale New Haven Health and Hartford HealthCare are among the first group of participants.
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COVID-19 vaccine makers seek diversity in clinical trials in Connecticut and elsewhere
While Blacks and Latinos are hardest hit by the coronavirus, they are wary of participating in vaccine trials.
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Pfizer’s Groton site helped develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Now the question is, will it work?
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he expects to know, by the end of October, ‘whether the product works or not.’
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State still waiting on $91 million in COVID-19 personal protective equipment orders
The state is trying to amass a 90-day stockpile of PPE in case Connecticut gets hit with another COVID-19 surge.
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New Connecticut cases of COVID-19 related child inflammatory disease; officials report a jump in overall deaths
COVID-19 fatalities rose by 84 Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll to 3,125. A day earlier there were 33 deaths.
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Connecticut’s stockpile of coronavirus protective equipment grows, officials herald steady drop in hospitalizations
The number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 dropped by 23 Tuesday. A total of 3,041 people have now died.
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Lamont calls for more testing as state gets closer to reopening some businesses
The state wants to run 42,000 COVID-19 tests a week and plans to test all nursing home residents and employees.
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Coronavirus drug remdesivir scarce in Connecticut
There are concerns about who will have access to the only drug known to reduce the severity of COVID-19.
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Coronavirus hospitalizations continue to decline in Connecticut
Continued decline in the number of hospitalized, but fatalities rose by 79 — bringing the death toll to 2,168.
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Son’s death highlights COVID-19 testing barriers for black residents
Robert Johnson was high-risk for complications from coronavirus but the hospital sent him home. He died that night.
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Connecticut doctors brace for coronavirus surge
Some Connecticut doctors have abandoned their offices for hospital ICU’s, while others struggle to maintain their practices.