COVID-19 Test

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.

Connecticut officials didn't track whether testing providers who collected public funding were also collecting insurance payments, a new audit states.

UConn and the Connecticut DOT conduct research on crosswalk safety.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is defending a decision to buy over half a billion dollars in COVID-19 rapid tests from a campaign donor.

Questions have been raised over campaign donations made to New York Governor Kathy Hochul by a small, family-owned company during a time when they were paid over $600 million to deliver COVID tests to the state. But the governor said there’s no pay to play going on.

Yale University researchers collecting samples from a New Haven water treatment facility found substantially fewer incidences of the virus in recent samples than were recorded a month ago.

Governor Ned Lamont blames "misrepresentation" for mix-up about why an order of 1.5 million COVID-19 home test kits that was supposed to be on its way to Connecticut did not arrive until Friday, instead of Wednesday.

A delivery of at-home COVID-19 testing kits that officials were still hopeful may arrive on an overnight flight are still stuck on the West Coast. All distributions plans scheduled for Thursday are canceled.

Two new COVID test centers will open on Long Island amid high demand and reports of long wait times at clinics.