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The health care workers at UConn Student Health and Wellness on the Storrs campus and those at UConn Health in Storrs Center were honored with a parade on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Sirens blared and people cheered to say thanks to all those that are on the front line managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Storrs. Similar parades have become familiar across the country, as ways to pay tribute to health care workers during the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic. A similar parade honored UConn Health workers in Farmington last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although most students at UConn Storrs left campus in March, when the University moved classes online in response to the threat of COVID-19, hundreds, primarily international students, remain in residence halls and nearby off-campus housing. Student Health and Wellness recently began offering coronavirus testing<\/a> for students at Storrs.<\/p>\n

The parade consisted of vehicles from the UConn Police and Fire Departments, and many others from Facilities Operations, including Parking Services and Transportation.<\/p>\n

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The parade was led off by a UConn Police motorcycle, followed by President Thomas Katsouleas driving his car. UConn’s favorite son, Jonathan XIV, was present, along with his costumed human counterpart.<\/p>\n

Also taking part in the parade were representatives of the Connecticut State Police, Windham Hospital, and the Mansfield Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Health care workers in Storrs were honored with a parade by UConn Public Safety, Facilities, and other agencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":160734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2213,2231,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-160697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health-well-being","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","post_format-post-format-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 05:36:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160738,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160697\/revisions\/160738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/160734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160697"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=160697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=160697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}