COVID-19

Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.

A review of records shows Yale New Haven Hospital’s mortality rate was 34% lower than the national average during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With flu season underway in CT, cases of influenza, COVID-19 and RSV are on the rise, with each expected to peak over the next several weeks.

With the flu, RSV and COVID-19 spreading like wildfire in cold winter months, Dr. Dwayne Breining, the executive director at Northwell Health Labs, shares how vaccinations are key to combating a “tripledemic.”

The CDC reported COVID-related hospitalizations in July started trending upward for the first time in seven months. WSHU spoke with public health experts to find out what yet another COVID wave could mean for late summer on Long Island and in coastal Connecticut.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut for three months in 2020, its owners, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, had to reckon with decades of relying heavily on gambling as the tribe's main source of revenue.

WSHU’s Xenia Gonikberg spoke with Damian Stanley, an assistant professor of psychology at Adelphi University, about his study that measured mental health impacts of the pandemic on Americans.

The New York State Department of Health announced Monday that the COVID-19 XBB.1.5 variant is now the dominant strain in the state, accounting for more than 50% of COVID-19 infections in New York.

Private sector employees who put themselves at risk in public-facing jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic will be receiving “hero payments” of up to $1,000 starting in February through Connecticut’s Premium Pay Program.

A special program designed to shelter corrections officers in hotels during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, using millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding, was repeatedly abused by prison workers, according to an ongoing state investigation.