As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
COVID-19 is responsible for all but eliminating the flu this season.
And no one seems more surprised about it than infectious disease experts like Dr. Richard Martinello, associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, who responded succinctly Friday when asked how many cases of the flu he’s seen lately.
“That’s easy,” he said. “Zero.”
In late summer and fall, public health officials crossed their fingers in hopes of a light flu season, given the demands the COVID-19 pandemic was putting on hospital resources. The threat of a “twindemic” of flu and coronavirus disease at the same time was ominous.
Published February 27. 2021 4:43PM | Updated February 28. 2021 7:54PM
Adria Watson, The Connecticut Mirror
Harding High School Music Teacher Sheena Graham expects a lot to be different when all of her students come back full time as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes.
Harding and other schools in Bridgeport are going to need more staff to help teachers get students caught up as well as school counselors, she said. It s having all the social-emotional skills, and having additional people in that area, because coming back is going to be challenging, depending on how your family has suffered through the pandemic, she said. We may need more counselors on hand to deal with all of the needs, even for the adults.