Some angry with the governor’s restrictions just blew their horns. A few threatened to sue.
April 20, 2020
Posted inPolitics
GOP rival ends quarter with more campaign cash than DeLauro, but coronavirus boosts incumbent advantage
Republican challengers are struggling to raise money and win name recognition in a time of social distancing.
Posted inGovernment, Health
COVID-19 caused more deaths among CT nursing home residents than initially reported
More than half of all coronavirus-related deaths in Connecticut involve nursing home residents.
Posted inHealth
Lamont says Fairfield County has ‘hit the apex,’ still wants more coronavirus data
Gov. Ned Lamont said the state use rapid testing and data collection to re-open its economy.
Posted inMoney
Labor officials: Having bank account on file can speed up unemployment benefits
About one-fifth of Connecticut workers seeking unemployment relief could be delayed because they can’t receive an electronic bank transfer.
Posted inHealth
‘We’ll get through this.’ Head of Saint Francis Hospital talks about management in a time of crisis
From mobile care sites to hospital finances, John Rodis discusses what it’s like to run Saint Francis during a pandemic.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
An Earth Day declaration
COVID-19 is a fast-moving catastrophe, and may likely claim over a million lives before we have a vaccine. Climate change is a slower-moving catastrophe, but is certain to claim millions of lives over time from stronger and more frequent storms, floods, and fires; from sea level rise and air pollution; and from the wars, genocides, displacements, and geopolitical conflicts that will arise from these factors.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Let’s try a different approach to learning during the stress of the pandemic
Who said we could continue with the curriculum during a time of pandemic? Who said that the stress related to thousands of deaths and the fear of being infected or infecting others, of losing our jobs, of not keeping the peace at home, wouldn’t be an obstacle? I am proposing that it is, and that we need to adopt a different approach to school and curriculum during the three or four months this lasts.
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Nursing home residents should not be discharged to face virus exposure
In late March, in the early days of the pandemic in Connecticut, a 65- year-old man who cannot walk and is incontinent received notice that the nursing home where he lives is seeking to discharge him to a homeless shelter. While there is a moratorium on filing new evictions through July 1, there is not as yet a moratorium on involuntary nursing home discharges.