'Safer than going to the grocery story:' ER docs urge people to seek help for cold-weather crises
Skip to main content 'Safer than going to the grocery store': ER docs urge people to seek help for cold-weather crises FacebookTwitterEmail Bridgeport HospitalHearst Connecticut Media file The day after a snowstorm can be busy at a hospital emergency department — people coming in with slip and fall injuries, heart attack symptoms, snowblower injuries and other cold-weather crises. But Dr. Steven Valassis, chairman of emergency medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, said he was worried the COVID-19 pandemic might be keeping people with snow-related injuries out of the emer...
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