COVID-19 will change many things about America. One may be the care our older Americans get at nursing homes of skilled nursing facilities as they are largely known nowadays. Much of the war against COVID is being waged in these homes. Here in Connecticut, 40% of all deaths have been nursing home patients. Many of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]