Connecticut’s Supreme Court sought to define the scope of emergency pandemic legal immunity for healthcare providers in a pair of rulings last week, which skirted a question of whether the governor had the authority to grant that protection.
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In the Hartford case, hospital physicians dismissed an outside colleague’s diagnosis that the patient was on the verge of a serious heart attack, deciding instead that she was experiencing a COVID-related inflammation.
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