Cars queue up at the state’s first rapid Covid-19 testing center in New Haven April 17, 2020, run by CVS Health and the state of Connecticut. In February at a CVS in Waterford, a number of New Yorkers improperly received vaccinations, documents show. By the time state officials arrived at a Waterford CVS on Feb. […]
COVID-19
The Connecticut Mirror is covering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in Connecticut. Read our most recent stories and in-depth reporting below.
Posted inNews
As COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to outpace demand, Gov. Lamont asks business and labor for help
More than 60% of Connecticut residents 16 and older have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Posted inNews
Teacher who raised money through Facebook — and got a $16,000 tax bill — is off the hook
Dozens offered to help pay his $16,000 tax bill, but his plan will put the money to better use
Posted inHealth
Can federally qualified health centers solve CT’s vaccine equity woes?
FQHCs serve many priority ZIP codes, but reaching residents has been a process of trial and error
Posted inHealth
Connecticut’s COVID restrictions to end on May 19
Connecticut will end its COVID-19 restrictions in two steps: May 1 for outdoor activities and May 19 for everything else.
Posted inEducation
In-person classes to resume at CT state colleges in the fall
Central Connecticut State University in New Britain will resume in-person classes in the fall along with the other state colleges. In-person classes will resume at state colleges this fall, with mask-wearing and social-distancing requirements still in effect, officials said Monday. The announcement came at Gateway Community College on Monday, where leaders from colleges and universities […]
Posted inGovernment, Housing
Eviction moratorium extended until public health emergency order ends
The state moratorium hasn’t completely eliminated evictions, which are now at about half the level they were before the pandemic.
Posted inEducation
New Haven’s school challenge: How to spend all that federal money
How does it spend $136 million in federal pandemic relief without getting hooked on the short-term dough?
Posted inHealth
New Britain residents weren’t getting vaccinated. So city officials got creative.
The city’s efforts are a microcosm of what is happening across the country as officials struggle to vaccinate vulnerable residents.
Posted inHealth
CT’s vaccine advisory group is on hold as members ask what’s next
Dozens of experts are on the sidelines. Some say their work is done; others say they could have done more.
Posted inHealth
Lamont: The bigger vaccine risk is not to take it
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause means Connecticut will see its weekly allotment shrink from 288,000 to 179,000 doses.
Posted inNews
His reward for civic heroism during the pandemic: a $16,000 tax bill
A Mansfield teacher raised some $41,000 to feed families during the pandemic. To the IRS it was “personal income.”
Posted inPolitics
Lamont closed the restaurants. Now he is their promoter.
A year after Gov. Ned Lamont banned indoor dining due to COVID-19, the industry has welcomed him as its savior.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont faults CDC on J&J vaccine pause: ‘I would have handled it differently’
Gov. Ned Lamont and other governors expressed dismay to the White House over pausing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Posted inNews
Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring
Battered by the pandemic, low-paid workers and cash-strapped nursing homes ask state for help
