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CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — New questions are arising as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp up across Connecticut. One of the most asked by News 8 viewers: Should you get the shot if you’re pregnant?

Pfizer is enrolling some 4,000 pregnant women to participate in its COVID vaccine trial. This after extensive analysis on animals showing the shot’s safety and efficacy.

Expectant moms were initially left out of COVID trials as a safety precaution by the FDA.

WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, February 9, 2021 — Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, a nonprofit rehabilitation-focused healthcare system based in Wallingford, presented its quarterly DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Care to Meriden resident, Marylou Colangelo, RN, BSN.  

Colangelo was nominated by her colleague Jessica Crespo, RN, BSN, and supervisor Sandy Delong, RN, MSN, who called her a “true asset to the nursing profession."
 

Hartford Courant

By Lori Reily

JAN 31, 2021 AT 6:00 AM

NEW HARTFORD — Nick Napoli likes to move fast. Within a year of his spinal cord injury from a freak dirt bike accident that left his legs paralyzed, Napoli had bought a quad, and a car, and learned how to drive again.

Last year, he took up skiing for the first time.

“I like going fast, the adrenaline and all that,” said Napoli, 26, of Orange. “That’s kind of what attracted me to it. Most of my friends ski. It looked like fun.”

WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, February 1, 2021 — Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, a nonprofit rehabilitation-focused healthcare system headquartered in Wallingford, is pleased to announce its collaboration with the CT Tech Act Project’s ‘Connect to Tech’ program to expand access to assistive technologies (AT) for hospitalized patients with paralysis. The Connect to Tech program’s goal is to enhance the quality of life for this patient population and help them maintain or increase their independence at home after discharge.
 

Connecticut Public Radio

By NICOLE LEONARD • JAN 14, 2021 

In early March, Vic Gara came down with severe muscle aches, headaches and a rising blood pressure, indicators of COVID-19 that weren’t well understood early on in the pandemic.

“Taking a shower, just the water hurt my body,” he said. “I couldn’t sleep. I slowly became hypoxic. I just couldn’t breathe.”  LISTEN HERE

The 2021 3rd Quarter Nominees for the Joseph A. Lindenmayer Employee of the Year Award

WNPR

ANTHONY SPINA is a former COVID patient who left Gaylord after weeks of therapy. He was one of the first guests on Chion Wolf's "Us in the time of Coronavirus" show on WNPR earlier this year. Last week, he was invited back as a guest on Chion's show, "Audacious," where she touches base with some of the first patients she interviewed last year. Anthony's interview begins at 2:24 and runs to about 6:21 in the podcast below.  

Author: fox61.com, Dec. 18, 2020