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Is Your Local Retailer Following State’s ‘Essential Safe Store Rules’?

Here are the state’s “Essential Safe Store Rules” that became effective April 3. Make sure your local stores are following them. For tips on how to avoid COVID-19 at the supermarket, click here. Should you be eating fresh fruit and vegetables? Click here for more information. Occupancy, Store Layout, Managing [...]

Worrying Your Way Through COVID-19? Here’s How to Quiet Your Mind

Your mind races from one thought to the next on a seemingly endless loop of mostly frightening possibilities and crippling ideations as the COVID-19 pandemic heightens all your fears and anxieties. While it’s not unusual to have such thoughts at times of such unprecedented upheaval and uncertainty, for your emotional [...]

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Forward Triage: Inside the Hartford Hospital Emergency Department

Only two weeks ago, a team of doctors, nurses and members of the facilities and operations teams gathered to design and activate a forward triage unit at Hartford Hospital. In this space, patients can be screened and evaluated for COVID-19 before entering the hospital. When the unit opened to patients [...]

How Are We Doing? Google Report, Tracking Movements, Measures State’s Social Distancing

Google is watching, always, but maybe people won’t mind so much during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tech giant, in an effort to aid public health officials, just released the COVID-19 Community Mobility Report that used location data that track people’s movements to assess state and local adherence to social-distancing measures. [...]

Hartford HealthCare Now Treating Some COVID-19 Patients with Anti-Malaria Drugs

Physicians with Hartford HealthCare have joined others around the country in using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat some hospitalized patients with coronavirus (COVID-19). On March 28, the Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the medications, which were developed for use against malaria and have been used [...]

New COVID-19 Phenomenon: Discarded Vinyl Gloves in Parking Lots

If you’ve been to a local grocery store or “essential’ retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic, you’ve probably seen a parking lot littered by shoppers with protective gloves. Yes, people are concerned about placing possibly contaminated gloves in their car. But let’s not get carried away. Most stores have outdoor trash [...]