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CONCORD, NH – On Friday, February 19, 2021, DHHS announced 379 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a current PCR test positivity rate of 1.3%. Today’s results include 206 people who tested positive by PCR test and 173 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 3,056 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire. Of the results reported today:
2/18: 379 new cases
Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are 56 individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 48% being female and 52% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (90), Strafford (58), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (50), Merrimack (31), Grafton (30), Cheshire (15), Carroll (10), Coos (10), Belknap (7), and Sullivan (7) counties, and in the cities of Manche
On April 1, 1980, Richard Lamie was hired by Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H., as the first employee and supervisor of its newly formed Frisbie Memorial Hospital Ambulance Service. April 2020 was the service’s 40th anniversary and Richard’s 40th year with it.
Lamie graduated from St. Francis College at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, with a degree in psychology and minor in sociology. While there he worked in the school infirmary doing cleaning and handing out bandages and cough syrup to students who didn’t feel well. In the evening, when the nurse was off duty, students would come in complaining of cough and cold symptoms. Lamie would treat them with a mixture he’d concoct in the infirmary using codeine and Sudafed.
ROCHESTER Frisbie Memorial Hospital will continue to provide ambulance and emergency medical services for the city, thanks to a two-year deal the city has struck with the hospital’s new for-profit parent company.
The deal, which gives the city one-year renewals options for each of the following five years, will cost Rochester $692,247 a year, or roughly $67,000 a month. While that’s a significant increase over what Rochester paid the formerly nonprofit Frisbie, city officials say the deal is advantageous for Rochester because it’s cheaper than the estimated $2 million it would’ve cost the city to bring EMS in house.
The total number of New Hampshire residents who have died due to COVID-19 has moved past 1,000.
The Granite State reached the grim milestone about 10 months after the first death was recorded in mid-March. As of Monday night, state health officials had reported 990 deaths associated with the coronavirus with about 75% of those lives lost in long-term care facilities.
(Story updated: New Hamsphire surpassed 1,000 deaths on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.)
These 1,000 deaths will represent 1,000 parents, siblings, dear friends, community pillars and others, including some who worked on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic or contracted the virus while caring for another.
They each represent a life cut short. A person who left a lasting impact on those around them. A person whose absence is felt with immeasurable grief.
Portsmouth Herald
DOVER, N.H. – Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and Wentworth Health Partners are pleased to announce that board-certified otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, Anders Holm, MD, has joined the Wentworth Health Partners Head & Neck Specialty Group in Somersworth, N.H.
Dr. Holm joined Wentworth Health Partners in 2019 and was previously seeing patients at Northeast ENT & Allergy in Somersworth. He holds privileges at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Frisbie Memorial Hospital, and Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
Dr. Holm has been an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital since July 2019 and was recently voted a Top Otolaryngologist by New Hampshire Magazine.
As a fourth-generation physician Dr. Holm earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Vermont College of Medicine focused on general surgery. Following graduation, Dr. Holm completed a General Surgery Internship at the University of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center follow