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Connecticut’s coronavirus outbreak is ‘on the pathway to being bad;’ how bad is it, and how much worse could it get?

Since the beginning of September, Connecticut’s coronavirus numbers — from positivity rate to hospitalizations to deaths — have steadily risen, prompting state officials and medical experts to point to an ongoing spike and call for renewed discipline on masking and social distancing.

But while experts say the surge is alarming, it hasn’t reached nearly the levels of destruction that the state saw in the spring, or that some other states across the country are currently experiencing.

New Britain High School students, who were kept outside their school until 7:30 a.m. in order to minimize time indoors, head for the school doors after they opened for the first day of classes.
New Britain High School students, who were kept outside their school until 7:30 a.m. in order to minimize time indoors, head for the school doors after they opened for the first day of classes.