5th District Representative Jahana Hayes announced yesterday that her husband, a Waterbury Police Detective, tested positive for COVID-19 and that she and her family would self-isolate at home for 14 days.  The Congresswoman tested negative.  While some are clamoring to return to Washington to conduct in-person business, Hayes says this test result has reinforced that Connecticut still have a ways to go – and there is still real danger in a premature return to regular order without appropriate precautions.  Hayes says never has the need to support essential workers, those keeping the streets safe, stocking grocery shelves or producing the food, been more clear.  She says they need workplace protections, living wages, and benefits so that no one should have to choose between going to work sick or being able to put food on the table.