No one had the right answer : HHC reflects on one year-anniversary of first COVID case
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Hartford Healthcare President and CEO Jeffrey A. Flaks speaks during a news conference in front of St. Vincent’s Medical Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Feb. 26, 2021. Flaks spoke at a virtual roundtable March 11, 2021, about the upcoming one-year anniversary of HHC’s first COVID patient.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
Nearly a year ago, Jeffrey Flaks received a call on a Friday night that he was both expecting and dreading.
Flaks is president and chief executive officer of Hartford HealthCare, the health system that includes Hartford Hospital, and St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, among other hospitals. Saturday will be the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 patient in the Hartford HealthCare system.
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State passes 7 million COVID tests, but even as testing slows, the number of variant cases rises
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
Julyssa Colon, a nurse with Optimus Health Care, adjusts her PPE before administering a test for COVID-19 at a mobile test site in the parking lot of the Russell Temple Church in Bridgeport on June 30, 2020.
The state quietly passed a milestone this week, recording its 7 millionth COVID-19 test, but even as the pace of testing has slowed, laboratory data suggest that the number of cases that could be caused by the B.1.1.7 variant is rising sharply.
The new data released late Thursday by Dr. Nathan Grubaugh, an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, show there were at least 152 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant as of the end of February.
Data: Up to 40% of CT COVID cases could have UK strain
Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
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As Connecticut recorded its 7 millionth COVID test this week, lab data suggests the number of cases caused by the UK variant could be rapidly rising.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
The state quietly passed a milestone this week, recording its 7 millionth COVID-19 test, but even as the pace of testing has slowed, laboratory data suggest that the number of cases that could be caused by the B.1.1.7 variant is rising sharply.
The new data released late Thursday by Dr. Nathan Grubaugh, an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health, show there were at least 152 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant at the end of February.
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Yale School of Public Health research has revealed the B117 COVID-19 variant that was first discovered in the U.K., makes up more than one-quarter of CT cases.