Our pandemic year: COVID-19 long-haulers are still living with the disease
Wayne Tanner, 61, who had COVID-19 in late March 2020, watches his neighbors John Yurek, left, and his wife, Loretta, not pictured, carrying groceries to their Claremont, N.H., apartment on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Tanner’s infection was never confirmed with a test, but after checking his symptoms over the phone with his doctor and a visit from paramedics who checked his vital signs, he isolated inside his apartment for three weeks through a fever cough and loss of taste and smell. “My greatest fear was spreading it to them,” he said of the Yureks. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Jim Kenyon: Hospitals are taking their shots, especially for their employees
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Modified: 3/6/2021 10:46:53 PM
I don’t think anyone questions that doctors, nurses and other hospital workers involved in caring for patients deserve to be at the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines.
But what about hospital employees who don’t come face-to-face with patients, work in hospital labs or mop operating room floors?
I’m talking about people in administration, marketing and fundraising to name just a few of the hospital jobs where going to work every day doesn’t significantly increase the risk of contracting the coronavirus more than any other office job.
Out & About: Poetry and prose event celebrates International Women’s Day
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Modified: 3/6/2021 10:23:47 PM
In the best of times, poetry has the ability to connect people with thoughts and feelings they might not have experienced themselves. In difficult times, it can provide comfort as well.
On Monday, more than a dozen writers will connect virtually at 6 p.m. for WISE’s Poetry & Prose event, which is being held as a celebration of International Women’s Day. It is being co-hosted by Left Bank Books, Norwich Bookstore, Still North Books & Bar and Yankee Bookshop. People can find the Zoom link at wiseuv.org/join-us/#events or request it by emailing development@wiseuv.org or calling 603-448-5922, ext.118.
Mascoma Lake ice safety workshop shows how to avoid falling through, get out if you do
Enfield Firefighter Andrew Burse plunges himself into Mascoma Lake during ice rescue training in Enfield, N.H., Saturday, March 6, 2021. Firefighters demonstrated rescues with the use of throw-ropes, harnesses, a team rescue with a backboard, and self-rescue with ice picks to a crowd gathered to observe. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Ethan Huff, 7, hangs on to the chainsaw brought by his dad, Lebanon Firefighter Dan Huff, left, to cut a hole in 30 inches of ice of Lake Mascoma for a demonstration of ice rescue and safety in Enfield, N.H., Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Federal aid rescues D-HH finances in back half of 2020
Modified: 3/3/2021 9:16:20 PM
LEBANON Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ended the first half of its fiscal year in the black, thanks in part to aid from Washington during the COVID-19 pandemic and a strong return from Wall Street, according to a filing with bondholders.
D-HH had a positive operating margin of $38.6 million for the six months ending Dec. 31, the Feb. 24 filing said.
Credit for that performance is due to gains on investments, as well as $49.1 million federal CARES Act funds and continued growth in the Lebanon-based health system’s specialty pharmacy business.
“The resulting 2.9 percent positive operating margin for the first six months of FY21 helped us maintain our return to financial stability,” D-H spokeswoman Audra Burns said in an email.