New businesses in Connecticut

Jan. 1 through Dec. 6, 2020

Real Estate and Rental Retail Trade Other Services Construction Professional, Scientific and Technical Health Care and Social Assistance Accommodation and Food Services Transportation and Warehousing Administration, Support and Waste Management Arts, Entertainment and Recreation Finance and Insurance Manufacturing Educational Services Wholesale Trade Information Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Management of Companies Utilities Public Administration Mining, Quarrying and Oil despite those mitigation measures. There have been 11 people in the hospital with the flu in Connecticut since October, and more than 12,000 COVID-related hospitalizations since March.

This speaks, some researchers say, to how much more transmissible COVID is, and how much more virulent.

“It says that it’s more contagious and that it’s less forgiving of any lapses of these types of prevention measures,” David Hooper, chief of the infection control unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, told USA Today.

Also, get ready for a possibly bad flu season next year. When you get the flu, you become immune (at least for a time). But nobody’s getting the flu this year.

“Because of the current restrictions and precautions everyone is taking this season, far fewer people will be infected or exposed to the flu virus, and therefore won’t become immune to certain strains of the virus,” Klein said. “So the number of people who may have more severe infections next year is likely to be greater because immunity will be lower.”