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COVID-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say COVID-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say
Covid-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say Steroids can be used to combat COVID-19, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization. Countries should stock up on steroids now, the WHO advised on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The steroid dexamethasone reduced COVID-related deaths by one-third of hospitalized patients who required ventilators and one-fifth of patients who were put on oxygen, according to a recent study by UK-based RECOVERY. For more than a decade, the drug has been used in the treatment of asthma.  Given that COVID-19 patients with severe cases often suffer from acute lung inflammation, like sufferers…

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by Christina Coulter
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Two Nabbed In Drug Bust Following Investigation By Norwalk, Stamford Police Two Nabbed In Drug Bust Following Investigation By Norwalk, Stamford Police
Two Nabbed In Drug Bust Following Investigation By Norwalk, Stamford Police Two Norwalk men were nabbed for drug dealing following a joint narcotics investigation between Norwalk and Stamford police. Dominico Sandalo, 45, and Ioannis Papachristou, 37, were busted on Thursday, June 6, when officers from the Norwalk Special Services Division and the Stamford Police Department Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit conducted a joint narcotics investigation into Sandalo, said Norwalk Police Lt. Terrence Blake. During a search of Sandalo's home, officers, including from the DEA, found him engaged in a drug transaction with Papachristou. Both men were immediately taken into…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Former Firefighter In Fairfield County Sentenced For Dealing Cocaine Former Firefighter In Fairfield County Sentenced For Dealing Cocaine
Former Firefighter In Fairfield County Sentenced For Dealing Cocaine A former Norwalk firefighter who pleaded guilty in December to selling crack cocaine out of the central firehouse was sentenced Thursday to three years in jail. Mark Monroe, 46, who was sentenced at the Stamford courthouse, was also sentenced to 10 years of special patrol after he has served the three years. Monroe was arrested in Norwalk in February 2017, after police said he sold an undercover officer three packages of cocaine weighing about 3.8 grams each. During the course of the investigation into Monroe, he sold cocaine to undercover officers on four separate occasions, two of which h…

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by Kathy Reakes