As we get ready to welcome 2021, we take a look back at the stories that got the most hits on our website in 2020. Our most popular stories covered COVID-19 at-home testing technology, COVID-related litigation, brushes with celebrity, big real estate developments, medical innovations and more.
Check out our top 10 countdown, and have a Happy New Year!
No. 10: Frontier files for Chap. 11 bankruptcy (April 14)
Frontier Communications, which provides phone, internet and video services in Connecticut and 28 other states, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a restructuring plan that would swap more than $10 billion in debt for equity in the company.
No. 9: Iconic Pirelli building’s hotel transformation begins (Sept. 30)
Work begins on New Haven’s landmark Pirelli building on Sargent Drive to convert it into the Hotel Marcel New Haven.
No. 8: The business of saying goodbye: CT funeral homes adapt to COVID realities (April 30)
The COVID pandemic has changed funerals and the funeral-home business in ways few could have foreseen. The ways in which loved ones mark a deceased’s passing and say goodbye has adapted to the mandates of social distancing and reduced travel.
No. 7: Manufacturers move at warp speed making medical products for COVID crisis (April 10)
Two southern Connecticut manufacturing companies introduce new products to address the unprecedented surge in demand for personal protective equipment for health-care workers and others on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
No. 6: Hyperfine’s Medical Game-Changer: Jonathan Rothberg scores again with portable MRI (Jan. 1)
Hyperfine Research Inc. pioneers a portable, point-of-care MRI for a fraction of the cost of conventional machines.
No. 5: Game-changer: Major bioscience incubator project planned for downtown (Jan. 29)
Developer Winstanley Enterprises proposes to build 500,000 square feet of laboratory and life-sciences incubation space in downtown New Haven, at 101 College St.
No. 4: Keeping up with Big Pharma, Biohaven lands a Kardashian as migraine drug pitchwoman (July 15)
Reality TV celebrity Khloé Kardashian, a long time migraine sufferer, agrees to share her story as a spokeswoman for Biohaven Pharmaceuticals’ migraine drug, Nurtec ODT.
No. 3: Liftoff: Biohaven migraine drug gets FDA green light (Feb. 28)
New Haven’s Biohaven Pharmaceuticals’ migraine treatment crosses the regulatory finish line and heads to market after winning approval from the FDA.
No. 2: Landlords sue Lamont over COVID rent, eviction rules (June 17)
Landlords from New Haven and across the state filed litigation against Gov. Ned Lamont over his April executive order aimed at preventing residential evictions during the COVID-19 crisis.
No. 1: Rothberg’s Homodeus ramps up COVID test production (May 26)
Connecticut entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg’s Guilford company scales up production of an inexpensive, at-home COVID-19 test.
