With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis shuttering our schools now and into the foreseeable future, educators are scrambling to provide necessary support to students and families in this difficult time. Numerous commentators, including recent reporting from Jackie Rabe Thomas, quite correctly shine a troubling light on the range of circumstances now facing Connecticut’s public school students.
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
An eight-hour fire drill: How the governors of CT, NY and NJ scrambled to avert a quarantine
The president spoke, then he tweeted. The result was eight hours of frantic calls between Hartford, Albany, Trenton and Washington.
Posted inNews
‘Red Dawn Breaking Bad:’ Officials warned about safety gear shortfall early on, emails show
In sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s statements at the time.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
We make our youth high risk when we continue to detain and incarcerate them
Youth needs seem to be the easiest to neglect, apparently even if their lives are at stake in the middle of a pandemic.
Posted inHealth
FEMA approves major disaster declaration for Connecticut as number of COVID-19 cases nears 2,000
The federal declaration unlocks crucial federal funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic as it continues its spread across the state.
Posted inHealth
What we know — and don’t know — about possible coronavirus treatments promoted by Trump
Little evidence that decades-old anti-malarial drugs work for the treatment or prevention of coronavirus, but here’s what we do know.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
A global health expert explains COVID-19 to her daughter (and the rest of us)
Kristina Talert-Slagle, Ph.D., is Director of the Yale College Health Studies Program and Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Like everyone else in Connecticut, she is sheltering at home with her family and practicing social distancing; but unlike most of us, she is an expert on COVID-19. In this video, she answers some basic questions about the disease posed by her daughter, Julia (the director), and other members of their family.
Posted inHealth, Politics
Trump walks back quarantine for parts of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey
The president walked back his remarks Saturday night, saying he would institute a travel advisory instead.
Posted inNews
Physicians fear for their families as they battle coronavirus with too little armor
Dr. Jessica Kiss’ girls cry when she goes to work. They know she could catch the coronavirus from her patients.
Posted inHealth
Rising COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations are ‘the beginning of the surge’ in Connecticut
As of Friday, 173 people are hospitalized in Connecticut with COVID-19 while hospital vacancy statewide is at 39 percent.
Posted inMoney
Demand overwhelms emergency business relief program — in two days
Gov. Ned Lamont doubled Connecticut’s business relief program — then suspended applications — after demand quadrupled resources in two days.
Posted inHealth
Take a flight over a COVID quiet Connecticut
WNPR’s Ryan Caron King flew his drone to see how Connecticut was following the governor’s orders to stay at home.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
A plea for science
This is a plea from a private citizen who cares not only about my health and the health of my immediate family, but also the health of all of the citizens of this country.
Posted inMoney
House approves massive coronavirus bill
DeLauro, Himes, Courtney and Larson all drove from Connecticut to approve $2 trillion package amid coronavirus concerns.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Legislators need to see our tears
American democracy is based on the idea that the voices of the people matter. As legislators struggle with difficult issues, trying to balance the needs of conflicting constituencies and solve complicated problems, they need to hear the perspectives of the people most directly affected. This is why they listen to hour after hour of in-person testimony. Written testimony has its place. Studies and charts provide important information; but being in the presence of the people, hearing their passion, and sometimes seeing their tears brings us together as human beings and makes it possible for legislators to make the best decisions.
