Nursing home resident fatalities now represent 50% of all COVID-19-related deaths in Connecticut.
April 24, 2020 @ 10:44 pm
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Some, but not all, CT jobless to receive $600 federal unemployment pay ‘soon’
Self-employed and ‘gig’ economy workers will have to wait for their benefits, as will everyone owed back federal benefits.
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‘Would this population of caregivers be treated differently if they were white, and male, and wealthy?’
The federal and state response to COVID-19 in nursing homes is riddled with economic and racial inequities, union members charged.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations see largest one-day drop since state began tracking
There are currently 1,877 people hospitalized with the virus, a drop of 70 from yesterday. Another 125 people have died.
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Will extra education aid go to remedy learning lost from school closures – or close budget holes?
During the last recession, schools in the state shed 1,300 jobs. A larger economic slowdown is predicted this time.
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Pandemic pressures at Connecticut’s state testing lab
The state testing laboratory in Rocky Hill has become a key weapon in Connecticut’s battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
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We are the future of public health: Why we feel challenged and unprepared
If somebody had told us last year that our public health study at Yale University would end abruptly due to a global viral pandemic, potentially the biggest public health crisis of our generation, it would have been hard to believe. What was one of the most exciting and stimulating years of our lives, came to an abrupt halt in the last few weeks. Students were told to leave campus, classes were moved online, and university life, as we knew it, was suddenly over.
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Why won’t more governors reopen the states?
Certainly, no person has the right to knowingly deprive another person of their life by infecting them with a potentially deadly virus. However, since we don’t have adequate testing for people to know if they carry the infection asymptomatically, we have the risk that people may unknowingly spread the virus. The issue boils down to this question: Will people behave sensibly to protect themselves and their fellow citizens, or does virtually the entire population need to be locked down by the government to protect us all from those who would potentially act irresponsibly?