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As numbers of patients hospitalized with COVID fall, Connecticut doctors said the few...

Will COVID vaccine boosters be necessary? Heres what you need to know. FacebookTwitterEmail Sara Omar, age 13, is inoculated by Nurse Karen Pagliaro at Hartford Healthcares mass vaccination center at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut on May 13, 2021.Joseph Prezioso / Getty Images The first round of the COVID vaccination program continues amid a return to normal, but some Connecticut health experts say booster shots will become part of the future to keep the disease at b...

The New Normal: NY reverses mandate that required kids in child care to wear masks News 12 Staff Updated on:May 25, 2021, 9:12pm EDT New York state has reversed course, now saying face masks arent required for children ages 2-5 in child care. One Long Island school district announced that kids no longer needed to wear masks at their desks or at physical education class but hours later reversed its decision, citing pressure from the governors office. In New Jersey, one district is keeping the...

Earaches, stuffy noses and other illnesses that were absent during the pandemic have...

Some experts say the side effects from the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine can be worse...

Skip to main content Safer than going to the grocery store: ER docs urge people to seek help for cold-weather crises FacebookTwitterEmail Bridgeport HospitalHearst Connecticut Media file The day after a snowstorm can be busy at a hospital emergency department — people coming in with slip and fall injuries, heart attack symptoms, snowblower injuries and other cold-weather crises. But Dr. Steven Valassis, chairman of emergency medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, said he wa...