Covid-19: Supplies Grow Short In Connecticut As Lamont Asks For Disaster Declaration
As Connecticut's governor, Ned Lamont, requested a presidential major disaster declaration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, testing, and medical supplies are still in short supply as hospitals put out the call for help.
In Fairfield County, the state's hardest-hit area, there are 546 of the 875 confirmed cases in the state, 47 of the 113 hospitalizations and 12 of 19 deaths.
Danbury Hospital opened a field hospital on Thursday, March 26.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said the hospital has put out a call for such basics as Clorox, peroxide, and bleach wipes. They also are in n…
Margot Cantrall, 82, Of Danbury: Chemist, Accomplished Singer
Margot (Benz) Cantrall, 82, died on March 22 in Danbury Hospital with her loving family by her side. She was born in New York City on August 21, 1937 to Max and Louise (Steudle) Benz, who emigrated from Germany in the 1920s.
Margot grew up in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx and attended both Hunter High School and Hunter College, graduating with a BA in Chemistry in 1959. That same year she joined Lederle Laboratories — part of American Cyanamid, where she met her future husband, Edward Cantrall, also a chemist. She was a member of the team which developed Ethambutol, a. well-known anti-…
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