In three homes, more than half of the residents have the coronavirus.
April 17, 2020 @ 8:51 pm
Posted inPolitics
Lamont postpones presidential primary until Aug. 11
Gov. Ned Lamont signed an order Friday postponing Connecticut’s increasingly irrelevant presidential primary until August 11.
Posted inHealth, Justice
Shifting plans and a COVID-19 outbreak at a Connecticut prison
“The facility is contaminated,” a Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center nursing supervisor wrote the DOC on April 6.
Posted inHealth
Connecticut’s COVID-19 death toll passes 1,000; first ‘rapid’ testing center opens in New Haven
“It’s a milestone tragic day,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday. The state’s death toll as of Friday was 1,036.
Posted inHealth
Where the COVID-19 cases and deaths are in Connecticut nursing homes
There have been 375 reported deaths in nursing homes from COVID-19 out of 1,713 cases. Here’s the breakdown.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The lies they told us – and a way forward
As the coronavirus pandemic destroys lives and ravages economies all over the world, we are forced to wrestle with how we go forward here at home. We are battling a global health crisis, which has already cost tens of thousands of lives and pushed the American healthcare system beyond the brink. We are grappling with an economic crisis, as unemployment claims rise exponentially, and businesses close without knowing for how long or if it will be permanent. And we all wait to see how bad it will get. The heartbreaking unfairness and inequality of America’s economic, healthcare, and education systems are exposed and exacerbated more and more every day.
Posted inSteady Habits
PODCAST: A census and an election, interrupted
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz says the coronavirus has presented Connecticut with challenges “of the magnitude” of a “new Depression era.”
Posted inPolitics
Ned Lamont’s crash course on a pandemic and a president
A peek at a governor’s life in the midst of a pandemic.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
‘In the flesh:’ How the coronavirus pandemic is changing the patient-clinician relationship
I have practiced family medicine for 33 years, experienced significant change in technology, business practices and the scope of my clinical work, but one thing has remained constant –sharing the personal space with my patients. This now feels threatened and I feel a loss.