I don’t like the term “white privilege”, although I agree with what it tries to describe –that most white people have a systemic advantage over black people.  The term “white privilege” is poorly chosen and makes me defensive, and more importantly it makes other white people who may not have stopped to reflect on the […]

Hospitalizations in Connecticut continue to drop.  Only 246 people with COVID remained hospitalized.  And again only two percent of those tested for COVID tested positive. COVID-19 Update June 11, 2020 Next Monday phase two of the state’s reopening will kick off, including gyms, pools, youth sports, and tattoo studios. But today, I am worried.  As […]

I read a great article about how to improve our response to COVID-19 when the second wave arrives (as most people believe it will) in the fall or sooner if social distancing and state reopenings fail. How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again I would like to add how EMS […]

I was at a meeting where in the closing minutes the question was raised about EMS testing for COVID-19.  A person wanted to know if EMS services were going to be required to get their employees tested for COVID-19.  And if they did, was there a recommended manner of getting them tested?  And what should […]

I follow the COVID epidemic as closely as I can.  The longer the epidemic goes on, the more we learn, but at times we head down roads that are dead ends.  Great news one day can be debunked the next. Recently I reported on an article in the Annals of Medicine that posits that 40% to […]

I was accused of being racist.  This was about fifteen years ago.  At the time my main assignment was working as a contract paramedic for a volunteer service in Bloomfield, a volunteer town to the north of Hartford that like Hartford had a predominantly black population.  I was working that day with a black partner/friend […]