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Here’s a look at how many residents in each Connecticut town have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Map of confirmed coronavirus cases, positive tests and deaths in Connecticut
- Despite its small size, Connecticut has had more total coronavirus-related fatalities than states such as California, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. Per capita, Connecticut ranks third nationwide in deaths, behind only New York and New Jersey.
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- The CDC relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
- Here’s a look at how many residents in each Connecticut town have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Map of confirmed coronavirus cases, positive tests and deaths in Connecticut
- The number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9% in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable, according to the latest weekly pandemic report released by the World Health Organization.
- Despite its small size, Connecticut has had more total coronavirus-related fatalities than states such as California, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. Per capita, Connecticut ranks third nationwide in deaths, behind only New York and New Jersey.
- Early in the national push to vaccinate as many American as possible against COVID-19, Connecticut ranks among the states having the most success in administering doses to vulnerable groups.
- U.S. regulators said they are no longer considering authorizing a second COVID-19 booster shot for all adults under 50 this summer, focusing instead on revamped vaccines for the fall that will target the newest viral subvariants.
- The omicron strain has been dominant in the U.S. since December, with the BA.5 subvariant now causing a massive wave of infections across the country.
- Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold.
- Daily coronavirus cases, deaths, hospitalizations and positivity rates for Connecticut.
- For many families in Connecticut, kids go back to school late next month, and with the new school year comes an ever-changing COVID-19 landscape to navigate.
- President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation’s efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions.
- Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but Novavax shots cannot begin until the CDC recommends how to use them.
- COVID-19 is surging around the U.S. again in what experts consider the most transmissible variant of the pandemic yet. But this time, public health authorities are holding back.
- The number of new coronavirus cases in Connecticut continued to increase this week, along with hospitalizations, according to the state Department of Public Health.
- The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors.
- The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists.
- A federal appeals court in New Orleans agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
- Look up the positivity for COVID-19 and case rate for your municipality
- The U.S. on Saturday opened COVID-19 vaccines to infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
- U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.
- Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government.
- COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
- The FDA’s outside experts voted unanimously that Moderna’s vaccine is safe and effective enough to give kids ages 6 to 17. If the FDA agrees, it would become the second option for those children, joining Pfizer’s vaccine.
- The FDA said children who received Pfizer’s shots during testing developed high levels of virus-fighting antibodies expected to protect them against coronavirus.
- The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights.
- A COVID-19 vaccine that could soon win federal approval may offer a boost for the U.S. military: an opportunity to get shots into some of the thousands of service members who have refused other coronavirus vaccines for religious reasons.
- Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been ordered for small children in anticipation of possible federal authorization next week, White House officials say.
- American adults who haven’t yet gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 may soon get another choice.
- The number of new coronavirus cases in Connecticut continued to fall this week, along with hospitalizations, though Hartford HealthCare’s COVID-19 expert warned the virus is not going away anytime soon.
- The Biden administration said children under 5 may be able to get their first COVID-19 vaccination doses as soon as June 21, if federal regulators authorize shots for the age group, as expected.
- Connecticut’s coronavirus 7-day positivity rate fell this week, down to 11.77% from 14% last Thursday.
- One in 5 adult COVID survivors under age 65 in the United States has experienced at least one health condition that could be considered long COVID, according to a new CDC study.
- A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.
- A few steps remain before COVID-19 vaccines are available to those under 5. Here's what's next.
- Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday.
- The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”
- The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids.
- Connecticut recorded another 9,751 cases of covid-19 in the past seven days, the governor’s office announced Thursday, as well as 39 more deaths.
- COVID-19 cases are increasing in the U.S. – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
- Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday.
- U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward.
- A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses and waves of infections two, maybe three times a year — this may be the future of COVID-19, some scientists now fear.
- The U.S. has the highest reported COVID-19 death toll of any country, with the number hitting 1 million on Monday.
- Gov. Lamont echoed a proclamation issued by President Joe Biden, who mourned the pandemic’s victims and called for a renewed commitment to fighting COVID-19 while at the second global summit aimed at stopping the virus.
- President Biden appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he led the U.S. in marking the approaching “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths at home from the virus.
- COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended.
- Testing for COVID-19 has plummeted across the globe, making it much tougher for scientists to track the course of the pandemic and spot new, worrisome viral mutants.
- The pandemic has generated gigabytes of data that make clear which U.S. groups have been hit the hardest. Take a look at the numbers.
- U.S. regulators strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare but serious risk of blood clots.
- Nearly all of Connecticut is in the red now, with more than 15 cases per 100,000 people, according to state data released Thursday, as cases continue to rise.
- Federal money for COVID care of the uninsured is drying up, creating a potential barrier to timely access.
- The WHO estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by COVID-19 or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years — more than double the official death toll of 6 million.
- U.S. health officials restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation.
