Connecticut continues to have low rates of COVID-19. Our state only has 56 patients in the entire state hospitalized with COVID, we are averaging only 2.2 new cases of COVID per day per 100,000 people. Our testing rate is 0.8 % positive for a rolling ten day average, 0.6% over the last three days. Our […]
70,980 dead of drug overdoses in the United States in 2019. This is according to provisional data newly released from the CDC. The number represents both a record high and a 4.8 percent increase over 2018. Connecticut’s death rate rose 17 percent during the same time period. You can read the CDC report here: Provisional […]
From 2012-2014, I kept up a blog called A Paramedic’s Guide to Take out in Hartford. I haven’t updated it since then, but am considering doing so. In the meantime, I came across this old entry called Bizarre Foods Hartford, and since all five restaurants are still operating (open for carryout), I thought I’d post […]
Every year on the 4th of July we have a big party at my house. My brother and his family come up from New Jersey. I grill steaks, ribs, burgers, fries, chicken, and also cook fish, scallops, shrimp and sometimes lobster, as well as corn, zucchini, and mashed potatoes. “The tribe,” as my wife calls […]
The Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition is passing out free wrist bands which say “Don’t Run Call 911.” The bands also list their phone number 860-888-5931. One of their harm reduction workers gave me a bag full of them to pass out. Now after treating an overdose, and giving my harm reduction spiel — […]