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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

Milford nursing home worker dies of COVID-19 after being on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis

  • April 21, 2020

Read the Story from The Hartford Courant HereAngeline Bernadel loved her job at West River Healthcare Center in Milford. But by mid-March, the 52-year-old nurse had become concerned about the

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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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COVID-19

State to dedicate 2 nursing homes, other alternate sites to COVID-positive patients

  • April 9, 2020

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — The coronavirus statistics reflect social distancing may be working statewide, but there is a crisis happening in several nursing homes. State officials said 39 percent of

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Connecticut

Democrats Seek Hazard Pay For Health Workers Amid Pandemic

  • April 9, 2020

Congressional Democrats are trying to add $13 per hour hazard payments for frontline health care workers up to a total of $25,000 in the next coronavirus relief package, along with

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Connecticut

We need to #ProtectAllWorkers!

  • April 8, 2020

#ProtectAllWorkers #CaregiversCount Caregivers and all essential workers deserve #dignity and #respect. That includes having access to effective Personal Protective Equipment in times of COVID-19. Our doctors, nurses, nursing assistants and other essential staff members

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