A man on the state’s list of suppliers for masks and COVID tests once admitted to taking $1.8 million from his company’s pension fund.
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 inEconomic Development
Exhausted health care workers seek long-awaited legislative relief
Calls to shore up Connecticut’s health care workforce are getting louder as medical workers feel the continuing strain of the pandemic.
Posted inMoney
Legislators push inquiry into nursing home operator
A nursing home operator is facing an investigation over allegations that raises that were supposed to go to employees were never distributed.
Posted inHealth
In super-vaxxed Vermont, Covid strikes — but packs far less punch
It is the nation’s most vaccinated state against covid, with nearly 80% of residents fully vaccinated — yet even super-vaxxed Vermont has not proved impenetrable.
Posted inPolitics
COVID restrictions to continue in CT legislature, Capitol
The Connecticut General Assembly will continue its stringent COVID-19 restrictions for at least the first month of the 2022 session.
Posted inHealth
Five things you should know about ‘free’ at-home COVID tests
Americans keep hearing that it is important to test frequently for COVID-19 at home. But just try to find an “at-home” rapid COVID test.
Posted inHealth
As COVID-19 surge slows, Lamont addresses challenges with testing and nursing homes
COVID-19 activity in CT continues to decline: Connecticut’s daily test positivity rate was at 13.69% on Friday.
Posted inEducation
Community college faculty and staff call for stricter COVID safety guidelines
Community college faculty called for stricter COVID safety standards as they return to campuses for the spring semester on Friday.
Posted inNews
Local officials asking why CT wasn’t ready for COVID testing demand
Officials trumpeted how quickly they readied COVID testing in 2020. Now local leaders are asking how omicron caught them unprepared.
Posted inNews
State worker vaccination mandate to expire, among other executive orders
Gov. Ned Lamont will not seek an extension of his executive order requiring state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Posted inNews
Lamont orders nursing home visitors to be vaccinated or tested for COVID
The order goes into effect Saturday. Nursing homes will have COVID tests available on site.
Posted inNews
Falling COVID counts in wastewater could signal end of omicron wave
Measuring COVID in sewage has been a reliable indicator of the virus’ spread, but Connecticut pulled program funding last year.
Posted inPartner Content
A shift away from daily COVID case counts has begun
The most familiar indicator of COVID-19’s inexorable spread —daily state and local case counts— may be on the way out.
Posted inHealth
Health care workers, already under strain, seeing record COVID infections
Health care workers are contracting COVID at higher rates than ever, and changes in federal policies are complicating the problems.
Posted inPolitics
Tension as Lamont, lawmakers look toward end of pandemic emergency
Gov. Ned Lamont is intent on sharing responsibility for the next phase of the COVID pandemic with the General Assembly.