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COVID-19

Nursing Homes Hit Hard By COVID-19 Had More Staffing, Infection control problems before pandemic

  • May 5, 2020

Last summer – months before the novel coronavirus began its deadly race across Connecticut – dozens of residents at a Waterbury nursing home started wheezing. Some had trouble breathing. Others

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Connecticut

‘Don’t tell me I killed my mom’: Nursing home CNA says she contracted coronavirus at work, passed it along to her mother who died

  • May 1, 2020

WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A nursing home worker says she believes she caught coronavirus at work and passed it along to her mother who later died of the virus. Certified

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COVID-19

Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment

  • April 29, 2020

Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed to foresee this moment when it would become so clear

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COVID-19

Fox 61 – Corrections employees put on rolling rally to protest Covid-19 conditions at work

  • April 24, 2020

Car horns blared outside the headquarters of the Department of Corrections in Wethersfield where employees who work the prison system held a “Public Safety Caravan”. About 30 cars adorned with

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Connecticut

Fear Grips Health Workers Caring For The Elderly

  • April 22, 2020

For the past month or so, Leikish Nails has engaged in an elaborate ritual the minute she gets home from her shift at Touchpoints at Manchester, a skilled nursing facility

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Connecticut

Service Employees International Union Workers Join Sen. Chris Murphy for Town Hall on the Impact of COVID-19 in Connecticut

  • April 21, 2020

   U.S. Senator Chris Murphy held a virtual Town Hall meeting with Connecticut workers from the Service Employees International Union on Tuesday at 12:00PM to discuss the impact of coronavirus.

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COVID-19

Nursing Home Workers Concerned About PPE Supplies

  • April 21, 2020

About half the nursing homes in the state – 108 – have had at least one case of COVID-19 and it has left workers feeling scared and not prepared. Outside

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Connecticut

COVID-19 Continues To Hit Connecticut’s Nursing Home Population Hard

  • April 21, 2020

Listen to this morning’s edition of “Where We Live” on WNPR featuring #SEIU1199 President Rob Baril and Licensed Practical Nurse Rhoda Lawrence. #ProtectAllWorkers #CaregiversCount #GetUsPPE

Connecticut

Shifting plans and a COVID-19 outbreak at a Connecticut prison

  • April 21, 2020

When the first Connecticut prison inmate tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of March, officials at the Department of Correction acted fast. The 32-year-old man had been isolated from

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Connecticut

‘We are in a war zone, and we’re scared for our lives’ – Boston Globe

  • April 13, 2020

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — They sound like soldiers, facing an enemy both invisible and treacherous. At the hospitals, they care for the sick and prepare for a surge of COVID-19 patients.

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