For the first time, net hospitalizations fell in Connecticut.  Still 1,938 people remain hospitalized.  Another 50 died. As I’ve mentioned I follow the patients EMS has brought into our hospital who test positive so I can alert EMS for them to check if they had any exposures.  For the most part now, it seems they […]

We are reaching our COVID-19 death peak in three days in Connecticut according to a new model by the University of Washington. Connecticut model Already people are discussing how we will reopen the state. Our Governor is a decent, cautious man and he wants to make certain he doesn’t open it too soon to let […]

It’s 12:59 A.M. I have given up on sleep. Fortunately tomorrow is my one day off (I will still go into the office to make my COVID EMS notifications) but I will go in at whatever time I feel like and will only stay for a couple hours. It’s not like I have to get […]

On the day the Connecticut death toll topped 1,000, the University of Washington has revised their model for Connecticut down from 4,0003 expected deaths by June 3 to 2,732 deaths by August 4.  They now project the peak to be on April 21 one day earlier than the last model. Connecticut Model Hospitalizations only went […]

He was found unresponsive on the city bench with a needle in his hand. The first responding police office shook him and he was able to come around with naloxone.  By the time I arrive, he is alert and angry. Three police officers stand around him with their arms crossed. He doesn’t want to go […]

I worked twelve hours in the city today.  My partner and I lucked out as far as the COVID calls went.  I heard a ton of them go out, including a couple of cardiac arrests that sounded like they fit the bill of a person not feeling well for a couple of days with a […]

Not the best news today. First off, I learned a friend of mine has been admitted to the hospital after taking a turn for the worst at home.  My friend is not on a vent, but requires 100% 02 by nonrebreather mask. It is a reminder that behind each of these case numbers there is […]

  The Connecticut Department of Public Health just released a warning to local public health directors of increased fatalities due to opioid overdoses, based on recent data from the Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Office. This has been a feared response of public health authorities in the midst of the COVID-109 epidemic. Historical data showed increased substance […]

Pouring rain and violent wind today in Connecticut.  It almost blew our hospital tent off the mountain.   I am home now and just finishing up making notifications to EMS services about COVID-positive patients.  Curiously, for the first time, one of the notifications was for a patient I was involved with as a paramedic.  Normally when […]