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US Navy Honors Hyperbaric Medicine Physician for Treating Covid Long-Haulers

U.S. Navy recruiter John Meehan of Southbury presented Dr. Wainwright with a commendation signed by the U.S. Commanding Officer of the Naval Reserve Recruiting Command for going above and beyond to treat Meehan when others could not. Meehan underwent 60 sessions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, each two-and-a-half hours long, five days a week. Continue Reading →

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Winter is the Best Time to Test for Radon: Discounted Testing Available through February

Because you can’t see or smell radon, people tend to downplay its health effects and ignore the possibility that there might be a silent killer in their homes. Over 10 years of radon testing, half of the homes tested in Greenwich had a radon in air level above the EPA action limit of 4.0 pCi/L. Radon, if discovered, can be remediated by qualified contractors inexpensively.” – Michael Long, Greenwich Health Dept Continue Reading →

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Greenwich Health Dept: Monitoring Your Health During the Post-Holiday Surge

“Social separation, another basic protective measure seems a heavy lift when so many are confined in a crowded airport terminal. Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Reuters, 2022) predicted that our holiday travel will exacerbate the spread of XBB across the country. The next two weeks will tell, and we will continue to monitor.” – Stephanie Paulmeno, Greenwich Dept of Health Continue Reading →

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