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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

‘Sad and tragic:’ Federal nursing home data show at least 3,400 staffers infected, 14 dead

  • July 2, 2020

One night in April, after coming off her shift at a Farmington nursing home, Chasity Williams started to feel sick. Her stomach hurt. She had trouble breathing. Her appetite vanished.

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COVID-19

A Minnesota death resonates in Connecticut: ‘A constant message that our lives don’t matter’

  • June 1, 2020

Of all the agonizing final moments of George Floyd’s life, as he gasped for air from beneath a police officer’s knee, the most painful for Barbara Sands was when he called for

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Connecticut

Disparities in Hispanic and black death rates much worse than previously reported

  • May 29, 2020

After reporting for weeks that Connecticut Hispanics are only half as likely to die from COVID-19 as non-Hispanic whites, state officials now say that Hispanics here are substantially more likely to die

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COVID-19

Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level

  • May 19, 2020

The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus is crafting a letter urging town and city councils, local

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COVID-19

Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded

  • May 13, 2020

Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb the spread of COVID-19 among one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

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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

Senate GOP wants special session on nursing homes

  • September 6, 2019

The CT Mirror covered a story in which all 14 members of the state Senate Republican minority called Thursday for a special session to save nine nursing homes from the

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