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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…
Politics
Covid-
19: Ridgefield First Selectman Tests Positive For Second Time
Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi has been battling the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since the first week of April. Marconi tested positive for the second time on Friday, May 1, town officials announced. Marconi said he wants to assure town residents that he is doing great and feels fully recovered after his serious bout with COVID-19. While he recently tested "presumptive positive," Marconi said it was not surprising. His wife, Peggy, who tested negative in a follow-up, said that they were told that many people test positive for weeks after they have recovered.…
Lifestyle
Covid-
19: Wilton Man Who Was CT's First Positive Case Recovering At Danbury Hospital
A Wilton man who was the state's first positive case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), is recovering at Danbury Hospital. The man in his 40s, whose identity is being protected, began feeling ill shortly after returning from a work conference in California on Feb. 28. The father of tiny infant twins quickly progressed to bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized a week later in respiratory distress, his wife said on a GoFundMe page. His wife, who is a registered nurse, said she is forever indebted to the hospital for saving her husband's life and how every step of the way she h…
Lifestyle
Fairfield County Resident Hopes To Get Back On Her Horse Thanks To
Lymbr
Lucia will never know for sure what caused her beloved palomino mare Butterscotch to be extra jumpy that day in February 2016. But the Fairfield County resident’s skill wasn’t enough when her horse bucked at the sound of a truck backfiring and Lucia landed on the frozen ground of a trail she rode regularly in Bedford, N.Y. A passerby found Lucia trying to crawl for help and she was taken to the hospital, where she learned that she had not only shattered her pelvis, but had three broken vertebrae and a torn hamstring as well. Seven months post-accident, with approximately the first 16 weeks …