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    • Home
    • CHOOSING A PEDIATRICIAN
    • Office & Staff
    • TELEPHONE APPOINTMENTS
    • Our Philosophy
    • Billing & Affiliations
    • Resources
    • Forms
    • Vaccine Information
    • CT HealthLink
    • TICK BITE: WHAT TO DO
    • MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
    • COVID-19
    • Contact

  • Home
  • CHOOSING A PEDIATRICIAN
  • Office & Staff
  • TELEPHONE APPOINTMENTS
  • Our Philosophy
  • Billing & Affiliations
  • Resources
  • Forms
  • Vaccine Information
  • CT HealthLink
  • TICK BITE: WHAT TO DO
  • MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
  • COVID-19
  • Contact

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CURRENT COVID-19 INFORMATION

Vaccines for COVID-19

Vaccines for COVID-19

Vaccines for COVID-19

 COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and free. Get answers to frequently asked questions and bust myths about vaccines. 

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COVID-19 Variants

Vaccines for COVID-19

Vaccines for COVID-19

 Numerous variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 are being tracked in the United States and globally during this pandemic. CDC is working with public health officials to monitor the spread of all variants and provide an estimate of how common they are in the nation and at the regional level. 

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Self-Testing or Home Testing

CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population

CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population

 Self-tests can also be used as one of many risk-reduction measures, along with vaccination, masking, and physical distancing, that protect you and others by reducing the chance of viral transmission. You can self-test, even if you don’t have symptoms or are fully vaccinated, in order to make decisions that will help prevent spreading COVID-19 to others. 

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CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population

CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population

CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population

 The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after. 

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COVID-19 Vaccine Finder

 COVID Vaccines are recommended.  

Please click the link below to find a vaccine nearest to you. 

CT Vaccine Finder

covid-19 Testing

Testing is available in many locations throughout Connecticut. Anyone experiencing symptoms, or who would like to discuss testing for other reasons (exposure, work related, return to college, etc.), please contact our office to discuss the next steps.   


Our office is currently testing symptomatic and asymptomatic patients for COVID-19.  Please call our office to make an appointment. 


The tests our office uses is a rapid result antigen test and nasal swab PCR test.  The sensitivity for the rapid result antigen test is ~85% and 15 minutes to results.  The sensitivity for the nasal swab PCR test is ~98% and time to results is currently 1 to 3 days (subject to change).  


Serum antibody testing is also NOT recommended for diagnostic purposes, but is being used for those who have had COVID and want to donate plasma or for seroprevalence research purposes.  Ongoing validation of Antibody testing continues, dependent upon community prevalence of COVID.

For a full list of up-to-date testing sites accepting patients, please click the link below.


CT Testing Locator

Plasma & Blood Donation

American Red Cross - Donating Plasma or Blood

In order to donate, a person must be 17 years of age, weigh a minimum of 110 lbs. (or meet the requirement if older), be in good health, and have a prior verified diagnosis of COVID-19, but are now symptom free and fully recovered.  Click on the link below to learn more and to sign-up today.

Donating with American Red Cross Donation

What Should I do If someone in my household gets sick?

Information from the CDC on caring for someone confirmed or under investigation for COVID-19

Household members, intimate partners, and caregivers in a nonhealthcare setting may have close contact with a person with symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 or a person under investigation. Close contacts should monitor their health; they should call their healthcare provider right away if they develop symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 (e.g., fever, cough, congestion, shortness of breath, headache, sore throat)

Close contacts should also follow these recommendations:

  • Make sure that you understand and can help the patient follow their healthcare provider’s instructions for medication(s) and care. You should help the patient with basic needs in the home and provide support for getting groceries, prescriptions, and other personal needs.
  • Monitor the patient’s symptoms. If the patient is getting sicker, call his or her healthcare provider and tell them that the patient has laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. This will help the healthcare provider’s office take steps to keep other people in the office or waiting room from getting infected. Ask the healthcare provider to call the local or state health department for additional guidance. If the patient has a medical emergency and you need to call 911, notify the dispatch personnel that the patient has, or is being evaluated for COVID-19.
  • Household members should stay in another room or be separated from the patient as much as possible. Household members should use a separate bedroom and bathroom, if available.
  • Prohibit visitors who do not have an essential need to be in the home.
  • Make sure that shared spaces in the home have good air flow, such as by an air conditioner or an opened window, weather permitting.
  • Perform hand hygiene frequently. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains 60 to 95% alcohol, covering all surfaces of your hands and rubbing them together until they feel dry. Soap and water should be used preferentially if hands are visibly dirty.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
  • The patient should wear a facemask when you are around other people. If the patient is not able to wear a facemask (for example, because it causes trouble breathing), you, as the caregiver, should wear a mask when you are in the same room as the patient.
  • Wear a disposable facemask and gloves when you touch or have contact with the patient’s blood, stool, or body fluids, such as saliva, sputum, nasal mucus, vomit, urine.
    • Throw out disposable facemasks and gloves after using them. Do not reuse.
    • When removing personal protective equipment, first remove and dispose of gloves. Then, immediately clean your hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Next, remove and dispose of facemask, and immediately clean your hands again with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
  • Avoid sharing household items with the patient. You should not share dishes, drinking glasses, cups, eating utensils, towels, bedding, or other items. After the patient uses these items, you should wash them thoroughly (see below “Wash laundry thoroughly”).
  • Clean all “high-touch” surfaces, such as counters, tabletops, doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, toilets, phones, keyboards, tablets, and bedside tables, every day. Also, clean any surfaces that may have blood, stool, or body fluids on them.
    • Use a household cleaning spray or wipe, according to the label instructions. Labels contain instructions for safe and effective use of the cleaning product including precautions you should take when applying the product, such as wearing gloves and making sure you have good ventilation during use of the product.
  • Wash laundry thoroughly.
    • Immediately remove and wash clothes or bedding that have blood, stool, or body fluids on them.
    • Wear disposable gloves while handling soiled items and keep soiled items away from your body. Clean your hands (with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer) immediately after removing your gloves.
    • Read and follow directions on labels of laundry or clothing items and detergent. In general, using a normal laundry detergent according to washing machine instructions and dry thoroughly using the warmest temperatures recommended on the clothing label.
  • Place all used disposable gloves, facemasks, and other contaminated items in a lined container before disposing of them with other household waste. Clean your hands (with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer) immediately after handling these items. Soap and water should be used preferentially if hands are visibly dirty.
  • Discuss any additional questions with your state or local health department or healthcare provider. Check available hours when contacting your local health department. 


To see the entire web page, visit  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-prevent-spread.html 

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) information

IMPORTANT RESOURCES

  • STATE OF CT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
  • CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
  • WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION FROM OUR OFFICE

Community Responsibility:  The CDC and Health Department are trying to limit the spread, or at least slow it down.  Self-quarantine, containment areas and social distancing are implemented for that purpose.  Please follow the policies and procedures put in place for all our safety


The best way to stay healthy is practicing good hand washing, remembering not to touch your face, and  social distancing.

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