Connecticut Health Investigative Team

Thanks to everyone who read and supported the Conn. Health I-Team.  Publication of new content stopped as of Dec. 31, 2022. Since 2010 C-HIT has published in-depth public service journalism on ...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/31/its-a-wrap/

The state’s weekly COVID summary: 1,027,729 residents have tested positive for COVID-19, with 3,827 testing positive over the last 7 days; the 7-day positivity rate is 15.56%, the state Departm...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/29/coronavirus-faqs-resources/

A patch of dirt in the northwest corner of their back yard, bounded by a chain link fence, a stone wall and a garage that houses feral cats, has become a happy place for Gladis Castro, 57, and he...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/26/the-pandemic-changed-their-lives-and-brought-them-closer-together/

An East Hartford pediatrician who served a federal sentence for illegally prescribing oxycodone and failing to pay more than $177,000 in employee withholding taxes to the IRS has voluntarily surr...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/20/pediatrician-surrenders-license-rather-than-face-state-charges-for-illegally-prescribing-opioids-med-board-fines-doc/

As soon as he heard that President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act would include more than $4 billion to replace lead water pipes in the country, Joseph Lanzafame, New London’s public u...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/19/no-longer-a-pipe-dream-state-in-line-for-150m-to-replace-lead-service-lines/

The 911 call came in from a parent whose son was threatening to kill himself. Typically, a police officer will race to a call like this, assess and stabilize the situation, and most likely reques...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/16/winning-over-skeptics-more-police-departments-enlist-social-workers-for-crisis-intervention/

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the first treatment that would delay the onset of type 1 diabetes ignited joy and hope among families impacted by the chronic, incurable di...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/13/after-trials-with-yale-researchers-fda-approved-treatment-to-delay-type-1-diabetes-brings-hope/

After being raped multiple times in the military, Linda Davidson feels so defeated that she has tried to take her own life. “Every day, I look in the mirror, and I hate what I see,” said the ...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/12/after-pentagon-reports-spike-in-military-sexual-assaults-an-embattled-ct-survivor-shares-her-story-to-help-others/

A coalition of mental health providers who treat transgender people in Connecticut has complained for months that the state Department of Social Services (DSS) has imposed what they call unnecess...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/09/mental-health-providers-say-dss-has-imposed-restrictive-requirements-on-transgender-patients/

When Herb Virgo spends time on the trails in Hartford’s Keney Park, he feels different. There’s a “heightened sense of wellbeing, a feeling of connectedness,” he said of spending time out...

https://c-hit.org/2022/12/07/the-healing-powers-of-the-great-outdoors/