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Yale New Haven Health: This Year, Get a Flu Shot; Omicron Will Likely Become Dominant Variant; Patients Delaying Care Due to the Pandemic

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“We’ve got another year or so of what we’ve been living with. Hopefully we’ve learned about public health measures specific to Covid, and we can blunt future waves more substantially than in the past, and we learn to live with those waves and ways we can blunt them.” – Dr. Tom Balcezak, Yale New Haven Health System. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, COVID-19, delta variant, Dr. Tom Balcezak, Marna Borgstrom, Omicron variant, Yale New Health System

Concern Increases over Delta Variant: Fivefold Increase Over Two Weeks at Yale New Haven Health System

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“The biggest group in our population in Connecticut that needs to get vaccinated is the 12 -25 year old group. That’s the folks across our state who are young and healthy, but are at risk of the virus,” he continued. “When they get it they spread it a lot and put our vaccinated folks, which are our older groups, at risk.” – Dr. Tom Balcezak, Yale New Haven Health System Chief Medical Officer Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, Dr. Tom Balcezak, Marna Borgstrom, Yale New Haven Health System

Covid Update: Tremendous Drop in Numbers, Myocarditis in a ‘Tiny Fraction’ of Young Men; Zero New Cases in Greenwich Schools

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As of Tuesday there was just one Covid-19 patient at Greenwich Hospital. Superintendent Dr. Jones said it was the fourth week in the row that the number of active cases in Greenwich Schools was zero. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, Schools, COVID-19, CT Dept of Education, CT Dept of Health, Dr. Tom Balcezak, Dr. Toni Jones, Greenwich High School

Covid-19 Vaccinations in CT: Fighting Misinformation, Scheduling an Appointment, Anticipating Herd Immunity

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During a press conference on Wednesday, the CEO of Yale New Haven Health System, Marna Borgstrom, said the high mark for Covid-19 hospitalizations was four months ago during the second wave of Covid-19. On December 8, 2020 the system had 447 Covid-positive patients. As of Wednesday, the system was down to 165 patients, with 44 in ICU and fewer than half of them on ventilators. That breaks down as 97 at Yale New Haven Hospital, 43 at Bridgeport, 11 at L+M, 11 at Greenwich Hospital, 2 at Westerly. Nearly 10,000 people have been discharged after being admitted with Covid-19. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, COVID-19, Dana Marnane, Dr. Tom Balcezak, Fred Camillo, Marna Borgstrom, Yale New Haven Health System

Lamont Allows Pharmacies to Offer Covid-19 Testing; Key to Reopening CT

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“I think we’ve come through our first peak,” said Marna Borgstrom, CEO of Yale New Haven Health. “Whether we see a continued diminution of Covid cases and can resume more normal operations is going to depend ultimately on a vaccination and more available and reliable testing with fast turnaround.” Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, Dr. Tom Balcezak, Marna Borgstrom, Yale New Haven Health System

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Drop; Not Yet Time to Celebrate

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A conference call with Yale New Haven Health System leaders on Wednesday gave a snapshot of COVID-19’s movement across the state and some good news for Greenwich and southwest Connecticut. Tom Balcezak, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Yale New Haven Health said Connecticut’s cases peaked on April 21 with a little over 1,970+ cases. “I hope that is the peak,” he said. “It has been coming steadily down since then. We are now, today, at a little over 1,600 cases in hospitals across the state.” Continue Reading →

Filed under: Health, Bridgeport Hospital, COVID-19, Greenwich Hospital, Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, Marna Borgstrom, Patrick Green, Tom Balcezak