The state reported an additional 2,109 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, and another 121 deaths, for respective totals of 22,469 and 1,544.
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 inHealth
Son’s death highlights COVID-19 testing barriers for black residents
Robert Johnson was high-risk for complications from coronavirus but the hospital sent him home. He died that night.
Posted inHealth
Nursing homes prove ideal breeding ground for the coronavirus pandemic
Nursing homes may have infectious disease protocols, but they’ve never before been faced with such a dire real-time test. Nursing homes may have infectious disease protocols, but they’ve never before been faced with such a dire real-time test. As cases of COVID-19 surged throughout Connecticut and the nation, “a perfect storm” of circumstances rendered nursing […]
Posted inHealth
Connecticut scrambles to feed those hardest hit by the COVID economy
Connecticut residents have joined those in lines all over the country looking for the most fundamental of life’s imperatives: food.
Posted inGovernment, Health, Money
Nonprofit agencies say they are on brink of financial disaster
Nonprofit agencies say they aren’t treated as “essential healthcare workers,” provided little PPE and on brink of financial catastrophe.
Posted inPolitics
Senate approves billions more for small business loan program, hospitals, coronavirus testing
The bill, however, did not contain more money for cities or states.
Posted inHealth
Connecticut expands testing as state death toll tops 1,400
The state announced a partnership with Quest Diagnostics Tuesday to significantly boost the state’s capacity to test for COVID-19.
Posted inJustice
ACLU files class-action federal lawsuit to lower CT’s prison population during COVID-19
The ACLU, and now a group of Yale experts, contend the state is not releasing inmates fast enough to slow the sprread of coronavirus behind bars.
Posted inTransportation
Will the coronavirus kill the state’s transit comeback?
After decades of building gleaming new highways, which enabled great mobility but eventually induced serious congestion, sprawl and pollution, Connecticut rediscovered transit. The state added or upgraded bus and rail service, with innovations such as CTFastrak and the Hartford Line, and people hopped aboard. Ridership was breaking records almost every year in the last decade […]
Posted inHealth, Politics
Lamont threatened with lawsuits over COVID-19 restrictions
Some angry with the governor’s restrictions just blew their horns. A few threatened to sue.
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.
