Struggling with long-haul COVID
Published: 5/15/2021 2:00:38 PM
In March 2020, Caroline Boyd Tricarico contracted what she thought was a mild case of COVID-19. Now, more than a year later, she’s been forced onto short-term disability and early retirement as debilitating symptoms linger.
Boyd Tricarico, a former executive at several top financial firms as well as CEO of the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, went from being a leader to having days she couldn’t even get out of bed. Her symptoms have included short-term memory loss, “brain fog,” auditory and visual hallucinations, and insomnia. She developed a trial fibrillation (irregular, rapid heartbeat), which was not present prior to COVID-19. And her COVID symptoms have exacerbated her fibromyalgia. On a good day, she can maybe make breakfast, cross stitch or go for a short walk, she says.
As COVID restrictions lift on N.H. businesses, many have no big plans to change
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Published: 5/7/2021 2:08:38 PM
For the past year, businesses and organizations in the state have been required to follow a series of regulations aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
As of Friday at 11:59 p.m., those restrictions are being lifted, with a single voluntary set of guidelines coming into effect.
This new flexibility, though, doesn’t mean customers and employees should expect an overnight shift.
“It’s not going to be like a light switch. It is going to be more like a dimmer switch,” says Jay McSharry, a restaurateur on the Seacoast. “Things are slowly going to open up, or get brighter.”
NH Business Review
Companies see slow shift in effort to balance employee, customer concerns
May 7, 2021
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For the past year, businesses and organizations in the state have been required to follow a series of regulations aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19.
As of Friday at 11:59 p.m., those restrictions are being lifted, with a single voluntary set of guidelines coming into effect.
This new flexibility, though, doesn’t mean customers and employees should expect an overnight shift.
“It’s not going to be like a light switch. It is going to be more like a dimmer switch,” says Jay McSharry, a restaurateur on the Seacoast. “Things are slowly going to open up, or get brighter.”
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire will commemorate Juneteenth 2021 on June 17, 18 and 19 with the theme Found Lineage: Celebrating African American Roots and Branches. The current debate around race is coinciding with a technological phenomenon: the extraordinary growth of DNA testing, along with the meaning of these results on concepts of lineage and race. The ease of access to this scientific testing has led people on a journey to delve deeper into their roots and to fill out the branches of their family tree.
While the research has brought some remarkable stories of reconciliation to the public, the data collected through our genes has demonstrated the brutality of America’s history. A recent study shows that, while the majority of enslaved people brought to the Americas were male, enslaved women had a disproportionate impact on the gene pool of their descendants. There is much evidence of the systematic rape and sexual exploitat
Employees at F.W. Madigan, a Worcester construction contractor, regularly receive suspicious emails from their superiors.
The problem is, the emails aren’t really from their bosses, and the messages are scams – attempts at tricking an employee into wiring money to someone, giving tax information or buying gift cards on their behalf.
“I’ve had a bunch of them,” said Dennis Serocki, F.W. Madigan’s controller, who handles much of the small company’s information technology matters. “Email – it’s very, very dangerous.”
F.W. Madigan is not alone.
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Dennis Serocki at Worcester construction firm F.W. Madigan regularly reminds employees to be careful with web security.