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Helping the hungry during the pandemic cloth jumpsuits worn by auto body shop employees when they paint vehicles. Hunger, a byproduct of the “We’re so suited up, we look coronavirus pandemic, has like we work in a lab or are trickchanged Aura and Barry Wag- or-treating,” said Aura, 42. “I call ner’s lives dramatiit my marshmallow cally. The Glen Cove suit. People laugh couple began prewhen they see us, paring for a food which is a reward drive three weeks for us.” ago, planning to do it Days after they by themselves. The began their work, Wagners would pick the need for food up food donations increased exponeno u t s i d e p e o p l e ’s tially. People were homes for the pantry thrown out of work at their church, the by the closure of Glen Cove Christian non-essential busiChurch. nesses, and many They researched were ineligible for the protocols for safe unemployment bendeliveries on the efits because they websites of the Cena re i n d e p e n d e n t ters for Disease Con- COURTNEY contractors and freetrol and Prevention, lancers — nannies, the Federal Drug CALLAHAN house cleaners, artAdministration and Locust Valley ists and other “gig” the New York State workers. Department of Health. They The number of people who lear ned mostly that it was were hungry skyrocketed. “The important to protect their hands, need for food began to grow like eyes and mouth. the virus,” said Barry, 62. “Most Barry, who owns the Sea Cliff people that we heard of at that automotive business Sport & point were landscapers and resClassic Car Club, knew where to taurant workers. They’re out of get protective gear. He bought goggles, gloves, masks and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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GLEN COVE HOSPITAL Emergency Room nurses Diane Perez, far left, Cristina Gomez and Amanda Sicuranza discussed the care of a Covid-19 patient.
For G.C. Hospital E.R. doctor, the work seems endless By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Dr. John Colletta said that his Centerport neighbors consider him something akin to a leper. They know he works in the emergency room at Glen Cove Hospital, and that his daughter, Morgan, is an emergency-room nurse at North Shore University Hospital in
Manhasset. “No one will come near me or my house,” Colletta, 61, said. “My son won’t even come home. He went to stay with his girlfriend’s family. Between me and my daughter, we’re in the heat of the coronavirus.” Colletta can still recall his first shift in Glen Cove Hospital’s emergency room — Dec.
12, 1985. Nearly 35 years later, he is the chair of Emergency Medicine at the hospital. On the front lines of the pandemic, he works around the clock to manage the emergency room, 98 percent of whose p a t i e n t s h ave C ov i d - 1 9 patients. “Where are all the stroke, the appendix patients?” he CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
ovid-19 is big, and we knew we couldn’t fix it, but Mother Theresa said, ‘We can do small things with great love.’