The see-saw emotions of this epidemic are unrelenting. The data is looking better. While Hartford continues to increase its hospitalizations, the numbers are slowing and both statewide and downstate, the numbers are going down. While there were another 41 deaths, this number is also starting to slow and be less that what was once feared. …
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Rest Day
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…
Hypoxia
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…
Easter
I worked the city today, and after a slow start, banged out 5 calls, and then they sent us in. Volume is down, plus today, as a holiday, we get double time and a half. I could have stayed at the base and clocked the last three hours, but I wanted to get home to…