I am on my knees, wearing a yellow decontamination gown that has already torn at the right forearm and left wrist. I listen to rhonchi in the lungs of an obese febrile man, who likely aspirated on the brown emesis he threw up on himself. The apartment is dim, and smells heavily of cigarettes and […]
There was a spike in COVID cases a week ago in Danbury, a city in western Connecticut near the New York border. The state and city responded by urging residents to stay home and avoid large gatherings. The city also canceled all youth sports for the fall to not leave their homes. They also limit […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prepare yourself. COVID may be with us for a long time. Think of it like its cousin, the common cold. No vaccine for the common cold has ever been found despite its longstanding menace to the people of this earth. True, many of the world’s brightest scientific minds and billions of dollars are at work […]