Officials are investigating how many long-term care workers got COVID-19 vaccine exemptions from a doctor accused of handing them out.
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Report: In early stages of COVID-19, nursing homes overlooked as state focused on hospitals
A report released Thursday concluded that many early efforts focusing on hospitals hampered Connecticut’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Report offers clues to what went wrong in lethal COVID outbreak in nursing homes
Without placing blame, report says missteps by the state and industry contributed to Connecticut’s high rate of nursing home deaths.
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National Guard members join health officials in nursing home inspection efforts
Guard members will help ‘beef up’ inspections of nursing homes — the origin of half the state’s COVID-19 fatalities.
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Advocates want to recycle CT’s wasted prescription drugs. The state says it’s already doing that.
Social service advocates were hoping to change a state law so they could funnel unused prescription drugs to the uninsured. But a 20-year-old, little-known program is scuttling their plans.