Donors included utilities, insurers, a trash hauler, a beer distributor, manufacturers of helicopters and jet engines, trade associations representing nursing homes and optometrists, and a construction union that endorsed Lamont’s reelection.
The state Department of Public Health issued an “immediate jeopardy” order to a Newtown nursing home owned by Athena Health Care Systems, indicating that the state found conditions at the facility that could cause serious harm or death.
Coronavirus infections among nursing home residents are on the rise again, increasing almost six-fold over one month.
For the two-week period ending April 12, 85 infections were recorded among nursing home residents in Connecticut. For the two-week period ending May 10, 478 infections were reported.
Staff infections also rose, to 346 for the two-week period ending May 10, up from 115 during the two-week stretch that ended April 12.
Nursing home infections and deaths are made public every two weeks in Connecticut.
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Officials at Hartford HealthCare, Yale New Haven Health and Trinity Health of New England all said Monday that they will continue requiring masks, at least in clinical settings.