The Village Beacon Record - May 7, 2020

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Town North Shore Father of Son with Down Syndrome Demands Testing Be Done at Residential Facilities BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

Port Jefferson resident Richard Hoey’s son Kevin lives in a Central Islip residential home for the developmentally disabled. Kevin is diagnosed as intellectually disabled with Down syndrome, autism, behavioral disorders and is developmentally delayed. His mobility is confined to a wheelchair. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 21-year-old Kevin has been largely confined to the facility. Family has only been able to communicate with their son via video chat, in which Hoey said Kevin’s attention span is “minimal.” “Look to see him, he doesn’t recognize inside that little square TV screen,” Hoey said. The issue, the parent said, is simply not knowing. Though he said the facility, Eaton Knolls, one run by United Cerebral Palsy of Long Island, has largely been communicative of current goings-on, two staff and one resident have tested positive for the virus. Though staff has been wearing personal protective equipment, they have been “low on the totem pole” in receiving masks and gloves. “Kids in residential homes, they are all not able to protect themselves,” Hoey said. “They have no idea the dangers with sneezing, coughing or licking things. And they’ll never have any idea about it.” The Port Jeff resident and his family have created a Change.org petition saying that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) should take similar action to Massachusetts and mandate testing at longterm care facilities, such as residential, veteran and nursing homes, for all staff and residents. The petition, change.org/p/andrew-mcuomo-save-my-son-s-life-new-york-grouphomes-need-mandatory-covid-19-testing, has already raised over 1,000 signatures since it started Friday, May 1. The site is operated through the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, which sets the rules and regulations for facilities such as UCPLI. Camille Schramm, the director of development and public relations for UCPLI, said her company, which was mandated to close every service except for the residential homes since March 17, has struggled to get their hands on

Richard Hoey’s son Kevin lives in a Central Islip residential home, and he said its high time facilities like his son’s receives targeted testing. Photo from Hoey

the necessary PPE. Through donations and requisitions they’ve managed to procure enough masks and gloves for now, but they have struggled to receive the necessary number of gowns. Otherwise, facilities like hers “should be in the top 10” of long-term care organizations that need targeted testing. Residents cannot simply go to the local pharmacy to get tested, a plan the governor said is currently in the works. Many have major communication problems and mobility issues. Many are confined to wheelchairs. UCP would not release the number of people at their 31 facilities who have tested positive for the virus, citing resident and family confidentiality, though she said they have fared better than others in the field. “We’ve been hit, but not as hard as some of the other agencies on the Island due to the safety protocols and precautions we have in place,” Schramm said. Currently, the policy for staff who present symptoms isthat they are sent home for at least two weeks and they require a doctor’s note to be allowed back in. After learning of a positive case, UCPLI brought in a company to clean and sanitize the facility, which Schramm said is “costly, especially considering the number of homes we have.” For residents that start to show symptoms, they are self-isolated in their rooms. Though if they start to display problems with breathing, they are sent to hospitals where many remain because many also have compromised immunities. “They are part of an underserved demographic population that are very challenged by something like this,” Schramm said. At the end of March, Massachusetts deployed National Guard technicians to long-term care facilities to attempt to test all workers and residents across the state, though things have only ramped up since then. After an April 27 $130,000 state funding plan, the National Guard has completed more than 28,000 tests at 525 care facilities in

Massachusetts, according to The Boston Globe. our community residences, both state and providThough the Bay State is ranked 10th in overall er operated, and has created a 24-hour emergency nursing home population, currently New York is services number for providers and staff to contact ranked at the top with over 101,000 patients. when issues arise.” The OPWDD issued a statement saying testResidential facilities, mostly nursing homes of ing is being prioritized for peoadult care facilities, have come ple receiving supports from under severe scrutiny since it OPWDD or service providers ‘Kids in residential was revealed a huge portion who display symptoms, addof COVID-19-related deaths homes, they are ing that the state “continues to have come from these places expand testing opportunities as not able to protect that house some of the most atnew tests and locations become risk populations. As of May 5, available.” New York State reported nearthemselves.’ “OPWDD is taking the ly 20 percent, or 4,813 deaths, — Richard Hoey in New York have come from threat of COVID-19 to the people we support and the broadthese locations. Suffolk Couner community very seriously ty has suffered 593, but many and has activated our emergency response team suspect COVID-19 deaths have gone unreported to closely monitor all reports of possible contact at these locations, and deaths may be even higher. within our system across the state,” the statement Hoey said targeted testing is the best way read. “All staff are fully trained on infection con- to stymie the growing number of deaths at trol practices and OPWDD has released guidance these facilities. to staff and voluntary provider agencies regarding “That will knock down the death rates,” he visitation, PPE use and quarantine protocols at our said. “The only reason [Cuomo is] not doing it facilities. OPWDD monitors levels of PPE in all of because there’s no pressure for him to do this. “

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Sound Beach Fire District at the Sound Beach Fire District Firehouse, 152 Sound Beach Boulevard, Sound Beach, New York, until 7:00 P.M., time in effect, on May 26, 2020, at which place and time they will be publicly opened and read by the said Board of Fire Commissioners, for the sale by the District of the following automobile: One (1) 1999 HORTON REHAB UNIT The automobile may be inspected at the District Firehouse located at 152 Sound Beach Boulevard, Sound Beach, New York, Monday through Friday, 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. by contacting the District Manager, Lynnann Frank at (631) 744-4994. The automobiles will be sold in “AS IS” condition. Bids may be made on Bidder’s own forms for said automobile. Bids should be presented in a sealed envelope marked “Bid on 1999 Horton Rehab Unit”, addressed to Lynnann Frank, District Man-

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New York Cancer and Blood Specialists Offer Tests to Local Fire/EMS Responders BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With the amount of testing for COVID-19 still nowhere where it needs to be, locals in emergency service are starting to get such necessary information whether they have COVID-19 or its antibodies from some unexpected places. The New York Cancer and Blood Specialists location in Port Jefferson Station started offering tests to firefighters, emergency responders and other essential workers Saturday, May 2. Throughout the morning, cars from districts such as Medford pulled into the parking lot located at 1500 Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station. Many who arrived said this had been their first opportunity to get tested, even though as EMS workers in an ambulance they have been handling COVID-positive patients for nearly the past two months. Marcia Spiegel, an EMT for the Medford Fire Department, said she had been exposed all the way back in early March when at a surprise party she learned one of the persons there had it, but even close to two months since,she was never able to get tested. Both her and her husband Kenneth both traveled to Port Jefferson Station to get tested, as did many from her department that morning May 2.

er 50 would attend next Saturday’s marathon. The testing is held Saturdays at that specific location when no other employees or clients come through, medical workers said. Lindsey David, a Medford EMT, said she donated blood right at the start of the pandemic, but has been looking for ways to help even more. That would be especially important if she can confirm she may have had Lindsey David, a Medford EMT, is tested for coronavirus antibodies at New York the virus and perhaps can Cancer and Blood Specialists in Port Jefferson Station. Photo by Kyle Barr donate her blood plasma if she indeed has the antibodies. “If we’re in fact negative, it doesn’t mean that “I just want to help any way I can,” she said. we still can’t get sick, but if we know if we have Diana Youngs, a VP of Clinical Operations the antibodies, that would be better,” she said. Staff in full body gear went out to each car at NYCBS, said all readings from the tests are to administer the tests, including the notorious being done in-house at the Route 112 location. long-stemmed nasal swab to test for the virus Fire departments and companies receive their and drawing blood to test for antibodies. About antibody tests within the day, while the virus test 35 visitors came to the location last Saturday, is available within the next 48 hours. Researchers are still trying to understand including some essential workers from a construction company. NYCBS officials said anoth- what are the likelihood of developing antibod-

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ies for the virus after infection, but theoretically, Youngs said, if one has tested negative for the virus and for antibodies then likely they have never had the virus. “They don’t know, and say you call an ambulance to your house, you don’t know if they have it,” Youngs said. “So it works both ways, it helps everybody.” All testing supplies are coming from the company’s own suppliers. Such efforts are some of the few non-governmental testing initiatives on the island that specifically offer help to emergency responders. While Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced plans for testing to be held at local pharmacies, specific details of locations and how those tests will be processed have not yet seen the light. New York state is also offering people the chance to try and get tested, with people able to visit covid19screening.health.ny.gov Though, barring a vaccine, officials said testing is the only way the economy will eventually be able to safely reopen. “Increased, reliable testing is going to be the key to reopening businesses, public facilities, and protecting our workers,” Brookhaven town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) said in a release. “Offering these tests to our frontline workers is a critical first step.”

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Who Local Leaders are Thankful for Helping During Pandemic BY KYLE BARR AND RITA J. EGAN KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM, RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With so much going on day to day, with people stuck at home and fearing for the future, there are consistent hopes provided by the men and women doing more to help the people most in need. Whether it’s people making masks for essential workers or meals for hospital employees on the front lines, we asked local officials, business and civic leaders who they would like to thank during this time of crisis.

Brookhaven Town

dition to our outstanding health care and medical professionals, I would like to highlight and thank the janitors, custodial, and maintenance staffs that are keeping our essential facilities and businesses running, as well as the grocery workers, the United States Postal Service and the many delivery drivers who continue to ensure that we receive the food, medicine and other supplies that we need during this time. A final thank you goes to all those hometown heroes in our community, too numerous to name, who have stepped up to fill a community need during this challenging time.”

Councilwoman Jane Bonner (R-Rocky Suffolk County Point) said she has been holed up in her house Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker since the start of the pandemic, only having one (D-Mount Sinai) wished to thank Heritage Trust kidney and knowing it’s a potential comorbidity. and the Mount Sinai Congregational Church for Still, she said she has seen a tremendous amount their food drives, which each raised thousands of community support, such as from Rocky of food and toiletries items that will go to those Point residents Quentin Palifka and his mother who need it. She also thanked essential workers Alicia who have been putting up signs saying including law enforcement, health department “Rocky Point Strong” on and Department of Social people’s front lawns, as Services. a simple way of keeping ‘Through their Suffolk County Legspirits high. islator Hahn (D-Secourageous commitment tauket) Kara Otherwise, both she said she’s grateful and Brookhaven Supervi- to service, essential for a range of people. sor Ed Romaine (R) point- workers have enabled “Like so many others, ed to Lighthouse Mission, my gratitude goes first to which despite all the con- the rest of us to do our our health care and frontstant pressure and expandline workers,” she said. part by staying home.’ ing need has kept up its “Their courage and devo—Steve Englebright tion is the brightest star in mission to give food to those who need it. In April, this dark time. I’m grateful the town gave Lighthouse Mission the green that people in our community are staying home, light to start delivering food and toiletries di- following social distancing guidelines, and rectly to homebound residents. With volunteers wearing face coverings in public so we can all which has included a few elected town council help slow the advance of this invisible enemy. members, they have been delivering upwards of We all have that essential role to lower the toll 100s of meals a day, Romaine said. COVID-19 takes by being responsible.” The supervisor also looked to thank the town Hahn also pointed out the importance of personnel who are delivering close to 425 hot mental health professionals. meals to seniors who were in the town’s congre“I am grateful too for the mental health progate nutrition program. That is 425 meals each fessionals providing counseling, guidance and and every day. emotional support for domestic violence vic“People feel like somebody still cares,” Ro- tims, as well as the many among us who are maine said. struggling to hold on to hope and the tattered Along with that, he also thanked all the peo- shreds of what was a normal life just a few short ple who are continuing to operate the many food months ago,” she said. “As someone with a sopantries in the town of Brookhaven. cial work background, I know for certain that “They are doing God’s work — they are these caring individuals are critical to the wellhelping people in desperate need,” he said. “No- being of our community. We need their skills body should go hungry.” and their caring hearts now more than ever.” Councilwoman Valerie Cartright (D-Port Hahn added that the community has played Jefferson Station) said she was thankful for an important role to help fight the pandemic. many “hometown heroes.” “From people making masks for others, de“I am incredibly thankful for the essential livering food to seniors and neighbors in need, workers who are diligently providing support to journalists bringing us the facts and stories or to individuals and families, including those the lost and to the families teaching their kids most vulnerable, in our community during the at home, I see bravery and love everywhere,” COVID pandemic,” she said. “Without their she said. “It gives me hope that we will come commitment, none of us could be safe. In ad- through this stronger than ever.”

The Miller Place Teachers Association along with Tuscany Gourmet Market organized a soup donation to Mather Hospital. Miller Place alumnae, Sammy Schaefer and Nicole Ellis, are among the people on the front lines. Photo from MPSD

New York State

State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) is thankful for several local residents. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the members of our community who, week after week, have shown up for their jobs — our health care workers, first responders, grocery workers and all the others who have provided the crucial services we need to get through this shutdown. Through their courageous commitment to service, essential workers have enabled the rest of us to do our part by staying home.” Englebright was grateful also for those doing their part at home. “For those of us at home, it is hard to reconcile that staying put is actually doing something important,” he said. “But by working from home, helping our children with their schooling, social distancing and wearing masks when out in public, our responsible behavior has worked to flatten the curve and slow down the transmission of the coronavirus. So, my gratitude goes to everyone who responded so admirably to the challenge before us. Your collective actions combined with others around the state have literally helped save thousands of lives.”

Civics/Chambers of Commerce

Civics have also noticed the massive amount of support generated by local residents. Bea Ruberto, the president of the Sound Beach Civic Association, thanked Rose Mayer and her daughter Lily, who as their own organization, The LilyRose Collective, are making masks along with Facebook group Long Island Love for police and other essential personnel. “We’re (the Civic) planning to donate to help her do this,” Ruberto said. “We’re also going to be asking the community at large to donate fabric, etc., and she will give us the masks to donate

to whoever needs them.” Chambers also wanted to respect the multiple strides businesses have made in the community despite the strains and stresses from lost business. The Rocky Point Sound Beach Chamber of Commerce thanked Dan Reinwald of Tilda’s Bake Shop who donated pastries, donuts, rolls and bread to Mather as well as Hope Academy at Little Portion Friary in Mount Sinai in appreciation of medical professionals and security staff. Tom O’Grady of Tuscany Market, who partnered with the Miller Place Teachers Association and organized soup and food donations for Mather Hospital,wanted to recognize our medical professionals. Roy Pelaez of Island Empanada donated empanadas to the Suffolk County Police Department to show appreciation for our law enforcement. Joe Cognitore and the Rocky Point VFW Post 6249, escorted by Peter Oleschuk, Rick Mees and the North Fork Cruisers, took to the Long Island State Veterans Home at Stony Brook University to pay tribute to the staff and volunteers serving there as well as to remember and honor deceased heroes. Eufrasia Rodriguez of Justice 4 Autism has been donating masks to ambulance drivers, nurses at Stony Brook, Good Samaritan Hospital, Pilgrim State and Southside Hospitals along with local businesses like Spiro’s, Fantasia Bridal and Bakewicz Farms. Tino Massotto of Cow Palace donated complete dinners to St. Charles Hospital’s ER Department and ICU as well as Good Shepherd Hospice. Michelle LaManno of C.P. LaMannos Have a Pizza in Miller Place donated salads and pizza pies to Mather Hospital, and Michelle and Stelios Stylianou of Studio E hosted free virtual art classes for the community.

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Event Planner Uses Bingo to Help Others Get Through Pandemic BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A Stony Brook event planner and her family are using their downtime to channel their creative energy through a classic game — bingo. As nonessential businesses were mandated to shut down via executive order by state Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) back in March, Laura Mastriano, founder of L.A. Productions Events, found herself with some extra time on her hands. Throughout the year, she plans weddings, birthday parties and other events for clients, including TBR News Media’s Cooks, Books & Corks and the Three Village Kids Lemonade Stand that was founded by her children Joseph and Maddie. Mastriano said conversations about possible event postponements began early with clients when news of the coronavirus hitting the U.S. first spread. Even early in March, a venue owner told her they couldn’t go ahead with a communion she was planning in May. “It’s a lot to swallow, but I’m trying to stay as positive as possible,” Mastriano said. What helps her stay positive, she added, is holding on to knowing that one day everyone will want to celebrate outside of their homes again.

Maddie (dressed as a shark), Laura and Joseph Mastriano get ready for a night of social distancing bingo on Facebook Live. Photo from Laura Mastriano

The Facebook Live bingo came about when she wanted to think of something to keep busy for a while. She also realized that her parents, Rich and Terri Adell, wouldn’t be able to visit her family regularly, and she wanted to keep connected with them. “Part of this bingo was for them to have something to do,” the event planner said, adding now that soon many others were tuning in to see what the Mastrianos had come up with

as a theme and how the family decorated the bingo table and its surroundings. Every night for more than 40 days, Mastriano, Maddie and Joseph have dressed up and led the bingo games, while the event planner’s husband, Joe, is behind the camera. Each night they chose a different theme. The event planner said she finds inspiration from her storage shed where she has items from past events tucked away. She said one piece of foam board has been used and repurposed to fit the many themes the family has used. “I’m trying to be as resourceful as possible,” she said, adding that planning the live streaming events has also been therapeutic. The family has included themes such as Disney, circus, the 1980s, gaming and more. An April 26 football-themed bingo game attracted nearly 300 players, many who commented on their favorite past football games. Mastriano said her daughter has been wearing a shark costume that incorporates the evening’s theme and has become known as Sharkie, while her son has been keeping track of the items called off the bingo card. Her husband will read off the names of those participating in the Facebook Live and their comments during the event. Sometimes, she

said, the family’s English bulldog Phoebe will even make an appearance dressed up in the theme just like the rest of the family. Mastriano said her parents have invited their friends to come play, and her mother and best friend in Georgia will spend the day planning out what to wear and taking selfies of themselves all dressed up. Many other family members and friends have also joined in the fun and are finding old photos of themselves that fit the theme and share to the event planner’s social media page. To participate, game players visit Mastriano’s Facebook page earlier in the day to find out the theme and print out the game card. Participants have even been making their own game cards when they don’t have a printer. The event planner said the family will continue to have the bingo games until the end of the mandatory closings. She has been pleased with everyone’s positive responses, but she knows it can’t compare to what others have been doing. “Compared to the amount of work that everyone else is putting in out there, like all the first responders, this is nothing,” Mastriano said. “Our goal in this whole thing is to just provide a smile, a small distraction and hopefully provide a little fun.”

LI Resident Donates RV to Setauket Doc Working Long Shifts at Hospital BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM At the end of a grueling 12 hour shift as an internal medicine resident at Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue, Setauket resident Nicolas Astras can’t simply enter his home, put his feet up on the couch and relax, not anymore, not since the pandemic hit Long Island hospitals like a tidal wave. He has a wife and three kids, ages 13, 10 and 5. For all he knows, he is covered in COVID-19. If he wanted to go in and take off his clothes and shower, he knows he could potentially spread the virus to other parts of the house and to his family members. Astras’ wife, Kalpana, said her husband had few choices. He could have lived in an unused hotel room or house, but that would have been a bitter and depressing pill to swallow, having nobody to come home to, nobody to talk to. Then, Kalpana said after friends referred her to Facebook group RVs 4 MDs, the family was given a third option, one that while nowhere near as good as getting to be home with the family, it would offer a degree of separation and homeliness, despite the need to be separated. “It has given us an area where he can be secluded from us so he cannot give us anything,” Kalpana said. “It makes him feel safe that he’s

not spreading it.” From the street, it seems like the Grey Wolf camper parked in Nicolas and Kalpana Astras’ Setauket driveway would just be a summer getaway vehicle. Though now it has become a saving grace. It belongs to Bud Conway, a Farmingville resident who heard about the Facebook group through a family member. Not having an account, he signed up and put his name down as having a camper. Soon, he was linked with the Astras family, and that was that. Kalpana, who herself is still working full time at a clinical trials company, takes in her husband’s clothes to be washed, trying to be careful around them. She also stocks up the fridge and makes meals for the doctor when he goes to work. Every time she enters the camper, she wears an N95 mask and is careful when touching anything. Though it’s not completely isolated. The daughters bedroom overlooks the driveway on the second floor, and when the husband walks out to get air in the morning, the daughter talks with him and connects. Despite how thankful the family is, Conway said it wasn’t much, even with him and an electrician friend traveling there to help fix the camper when something was broken. With him not using it, he said it was the least he could do. “I’m not the hero here,” he said. “It’s just a camper, not a kidney.”

Above, Bud Conway and Kalpana Astras outside the camper where Nic Astras is staying during the ongoing pandemic; right, drawings Kalpana’s daughter drew for her father. Photos by Kyle Barr

RVs 4 MDs started March 24 as just Texan Emily Phillips, the wife of an emergency room physician, was convinced to ask the community if anyone had an RV for her husband. Days later she founded the Facebook group,which has since blown out into a nation-spanning movement to connect camper and trailer owners to doctors who need to be able to self-quarantine. But over a month since that started, as the number of hospitalized patients decline in the county, officials say there is some hope on the horizon. But for hospital workers still in the midst of it, the silver linings usually come not from thinking of work, but with communicating

with the family. “Yesterday he said they excavated some patients, which is good news — it’s a flicker of good news,” Kalpana said. “It’s really to boost his morale, to keep him home with us.” Inside the camper, a number of index cards lay on the table in the suffused light. They show pictures of rainbows, hearts and messages saying, “We love You” and “Your Our Hero,” all from his kids. “My 10-year-old, her way of coping is with art,” Kalpana said. “Every time I come in with food, she does artwork, and he just collects them on the table.”

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SBU Conducting Study to Find Cure for COVID-19 Patients Centerport Resident Among First to Donate Convalescent Blood Plasma BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook Medicine has launched a research study in the hopes of developing a treatment for those severely suffering from the coronavirus. On April 2, SBM began a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved research study to determine if convalescent blood plasma from those who’ve recovered from COVID-19 can help treat currently hospitalized patients. One of the first volunteers was Mark Goidell, a litigation attorney from Centerport.

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Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, vice chair of Clinical Research and Innovation in the Renaissance School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, is heading up the research study. He said the hospital needs approximately 100 volunteers who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate blood plasma, possibly once a week or every other week. Subjects must have contracted COVID-19 and be free of symptoms for 14 days. As of April 22, the doctor said they have received a large number of inquiries leading to 180 people being screened and 90 have been identified as having high levels of antibodies. Currently 25 have either donated blood plasma or are scheduled to do so. Bennett-Guerrero said researchers are looking for those with high antibody levels of the virus and testing takes about 15 minutes. The donors must also meet regular criteria to be a blood donor, the doctor said, which includes being at least 17 years old, weighing more than 100 pounds, and having no infections Certain

travel outside of the U.S. will also be reviewed. “We’re very fortunate that we can run this protocol independently, because we have access to a very good test for antibodies, and we also have a licensed blood collection facility already in our hospital,” the doctor said. “So we have those two main ingredients to help us to collect blood plasma and unfortunately have a large number of patients who are in desperate need of help.” Bennett-Guerrero said the trial will include 500 hospital patients ranging from those who are intubated and those who are not. A higher percentage of patients will receive convalescent serum on a random basis compared to other trials which tend to have 50 percent of patients serve as a control group who receive a placebo. “Our protocol is unique in that while we want to help as many people as possible, we also want to determine if it’s safe and effective,” the doctor said. “It’s a randomized trial where 80 percent of the patients will receive the convalescent plasma because we hope to benefit as many patients as possible, and there will be a small group of 20 percent of patients that will serve as the control group and get standard plasma. It’s the only way we can rigorously determine if it’s safe and effective to do this.” Plasma, which is the liquid portion of the blood, helps with clotting and supporting immunity. The hope is the plasma from those who have survived COVID-19 will contain antibodies which in turn can kill the virus in seriously ill patients. According to SBM, convalescent serum therapy is a centuryold treatment that has been used in patients during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, the diphtheria epidemic in the U.S. in the 1920s, and more recently, the Ebola outbreak in 2014. The doctor said it’s too early to determine if giving convalescent blood plasma to a COVID-19 patient will help. “It’s very early in the stage with this pandemic,” he said. “We’re only beginning to learn what are the patterns of antibody formation in people who had the COVID-19 infection. In general it’s believed that antibodies to COVID-19 will probably persist for a while, perhaps months or years, and likely be protective. However, we don’t know yet if the antibodies that we are measuring actually mean, ‘quote-unquote,’ one is immune and can’t be reinfected. We think that’s probably the case but it’s not proven yet.”

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The doctor said Goidell was a good candidate because he was free of symptoms for a couple of weeks, had high levels of the antibodies in his system and met blood

Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, above, is leading the clinical trial at Stony Brook Medicine which is expected to enroll up to 500 patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19; below left, blood plasma donor Mark Goidell and his wife, Lynn, recently recovered from the coronavirus. Photos from Stony Brook Medicine

donation criteria. Both Goidell, 64, and his wife Lynn, 62, came down with the virus. The attorney said he was sick toward the end of February and in early March, and his symptoms included being lethargic and feverish, and at times during the night he would frequently wake up and try to catch his breath, many times going outside to do so. His wife was admitted to Huntington Hospital March 13 due to having double pneumonia and was discharged a few days later. Goidell said he did have a relapse where he said his symptoms felt like a sinus infection, with a loss of smell and taste. He said he has recovered about 70 percent of those senses. While his symptoms didn’t initially lead to testing, he said, once his wife was hospitalized he was tested March 17 at an urgent care facility. After reading about the Stony Brook study on the News12 website, Goidell said he was more than willing to participate in the trial. “It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening and all the tragedy and anguish that is being brought about by the virus,” Goidell said. “I’m grateful for the fact that I’ve recovered, and I’m able to do something to help.” He said he feels fortunate to live in close proximity to Stony Brook Medicine. Between his experience with the study so far and his

wife’s hospital stay at Huntington Hospital, he has gained an even greater respect and admiration for health care workers. He called those who treated his wife “heroes.” He added the two of them are now back to working remotely, joking that he has put on some weight due to his wife’s good cooking, and he has been playing a lot of basketball in his driveway to burn off the pounds. He said he hopes that others who have recovered will donate their plasma, and that others will “stay inside and help each other out.” “I wish Dr. Bennett-Guerrero and the researchers at Stony Brook the best of luck, and I have the most gratitude for the work they are doing,” he said. People who have recovered from COVID-19 and want to donate blood plasma can visit www.stonybrookmedicine.edu/ COVID_donateplasma where they will be required to fill out an online survey. Potentially eligible people will be asked to participate in a screening visit at a Stony Brook Medicine facility, which will take approximately 30 minutes. You do not need to be a Stony Brook University Hospital patient to participate, but you must meet the required criteria for plasma donation and have high levels of antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Above photo from Mount Sinai Fire Department Facebook; below file photo by Kevin Redding

Beloved MS Fire Captain Wilson Passes Away at 80 Samantha Conklin added to the Miller Avenue School rock garden. Photo from SWRCSD

Community Creates Colorful Garden in Front of Miller Ave Elementary

Shoreham-Wading River Central School District’s Miller Avenue School has a colorful addition at the parking lot entry thanks to students and their families. Encouraged by Principal Claudia Smith, students created their own little masterpieces on rocks at home and safely dropped them off at the garden to add to the expressions of community and kindness. Samantha Conklin dropped off rocks that she painted with her family to the rock garden. She

was accompanied by Marley, the stuffed class pet of Farrah Franquiz and Conklin’s kindergarten class. Marley was voted in as class pet on Election Day and the students have kept a class journal of his many adventures. “I was so impressed at how different and beautiful all the rocks were in the garden,” said Conklin who added that she is so proud to be a part of the Shoreham-Wading River and Miller Avenue community.

Wading River School Student Pens Quarantine Song Wading River School fourth-grader Adalyna Villa wrote a song with lyrics that express her feelings on the current stay at home directive. Adalyna wrote “Corona Craze” on her own and then shared it with Wading River School music teacher Mark Verity, who set out to write and record a piano portion to accompany her voice. In a unique way to creating the song, Verity wrote the accompaniment for her after hearing her sing the song a cappella. He sent that recording back to the family and they played the

Wading River School fourth-grader Adalyna Villa.. Photo from SWRCSD

track while Adalyna sang the song. Then Adalyna performed with the recorded music, creating the finished song.

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Walter Wilson, a chief at the Mount Sinai Fire Department and longtime firefighter, passed away April 27. He was 80 and had just recently celebrated his birthday before his passing. Wilson joined the Mount Sinai Fire Department eight years ago, and when he passed away, he was the captain of the fire police Company 4. The 1st Mount Sinai Assistant Chief Randy Nelson said after joining, Wilson quickly became a “staple of leadership within the department, whether it was senior members or new members who were only serving a couple months or years.” On his birthday, despite his ailments, Wilson stood in his yard as both the fire department and a steady stream of cars from the community rolled by his house to celebrate him turning 80. In a previous article from 2017 in the Village Beacon Record, Walter Wilson, then 77, was described as a former utilities manager at Stony Brook University and volunteer who came out of retirement to join the firehouse after serving the Yaphank Fire Department for 26 years. There he had served as an officer in the ranks and commissioner of the Yaphank Fire District. He told the reporter at the time of the article that once a fireman, always a fireman. “I had taken about a 10-year break [between Yaphank and Mount Sinai] and retired,

but every time a siren went off in the neighborhood, my wife would say to me, ‘you’re like a dog on a porch, getting ready to go chase cars,’” said Wilson. “But it’s great. I got back in, and I love it.” The Mount Sinai Fire Department held a ceremony April 29 for the fallen captain, with fire trucks rolling out in front of the firehouse on Mount Sinai-Coram Rd underneath a giant American flag and onto North Country road. “Your kind heart and dedication to the fire department and the community will never be forgotten,” the fire department wrote on Facebook. “May you Rest In Peace Wally we will take it from here.”

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She was working even when she wasn’t. After coming home from her job as a secretary for an attorney in Riverhead, my mom would fret about what my family was going to eat for dinner. It didn’t matter if most of the people left in the house were self-sufficient, Mom was going to make something for everyone, she was going to vacuum the floor, she was going to start the laundry, and by 10 p.m. she would be snoring on From left to right: Kyle Barr (right) with mom Deborah and brother Kris; Caroline Biondo with her grandmother Johness Kuisel; Daniel Dunaief with mother Leah; and the couch, as if her batteries were depleted and no amount of Rita J. Egan with mom Rita M. Egan coaxing would get her to restart without a recharge. I think I’ve got my sensibilities toward work from you, for either good or ill. By your example, I finish what I start, even in times like this. I don’t do things halfway, because each thing should be treated with care. That is, at work, at least. I know you would still be ashamed to see the way I keep my home.

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Courtney and Caroline Biondo - Johness Kuisel

To us, Johness is Mom and Granny. My mom is the driving force not only of my life, but for 44 years has been the heart and soul of Times Beacon Record newspapers. She is the epitome of class. She teaches me to always be my very best and always put forth my very best effort, more importantly as a mother myself. Our Granny is the one to watch college football with on Saturdays, the NFL on Sundays and basketball during the week. Granny is always up for a trip to the beach to lounge in the sun and collect shells. Granny likes to sit with a cat in her lap after a long day and sip a Bloody Mary. Granny teaches us to never give up, because you’re often closest to succeeding when you want to forfeit. She teaches us to explore through travel and to always be eager to learn new things.

Daniel Dunaief - Leah Dunaief

When I was young, my mother started these papers. When I called her at work, Mrs. Kuisel answered, much as she does now. “Can I speak to my mom?” I asked. Mrs. Kuisel asked me who my mother was because so many mothers worked at the papers. The question is one I’m happy to answer every day. I’m proud to say that who I am and who my brothers are begins with being numbers 1, 2 and 3 sons of Leah Dunaief. Sure, my younger brother and I might argue about the order of importance, but we are all grateful to have learned numerous important lessons, including never to wear jeans in the ocean or to use apple juice to clean our faces, from a woman we’re fortunate to call mom. I wish her and all the other moms dealing with the ever-fluid new normal a happy Mother’s Day.

Rita J. Egan - Rita M. Egan

When I was a kid in Queens, more mothers were beginning to go to work full time, outside of the home. My mother was no different. At first, she worked as a cashier at Alexander’s Department Store, but she knew she needed to make more money, and she soon took a night class to brush up on her typing and shorthand. After a few different jobs, she eventually found herself working for Con Edison in its transportation department. She lived in Queens when she first began working there but eventually moved out to Smithtown. She would be up before the sun, even leaving before sunrise to catch the train, and while she soon became part of a carpool, the more convenient ride didn’t stop the early morning rush to be at the office by 7 a.m. I may not have inherited my mother’s knack for getting up before the crack of dawn, but I would like to think I take after her when it comes to getting up every morning and doing whatever it is that needs to be done, even when times are rough. While Mother’s Day may be celebrated a little bit differently this year, here’s hoping we can all find some way to celebrate all the special women in our lives.

The Inequalities of Quarantine Protesters The overwhelming majority of folks protesting around the country against quarantine are white. Many of my friends in the black and brown communities have made the comment, “Imagine if that was us?” The truth is that we don’t have to imagine. Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Stephon Clarke and Eric Garner are just a few examples of what happens to people of color. It is curious to me that the armed protesters in Michigan, breaking into a government building, were not arrested and did not get fined, despite clearly breaking the law. Why does white skin too often mean a free pass for transgression? Why does black or brown skin too often mean a death sentence? Also telling is that politicians like U. S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1), who has publicly disparaged Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, have been silent about their base,

who are violating the law with public protests, not observing social distancing or wearing masks, as we witnessed in Commack last week. These men and women are endangering themselves and others with their actions. Congressman Lee Zeldin has referred to protesters he disagrees with as “unhinged,” an “angry mob,” a group of “paid protesters,” but is silent over the actions of his base, whose behavior is a public health threat. It is hypocrisy at its finest. I have organized and participated in peaceful protests on numerous occasions over the years, taking great pains to remain within the law, coordinating with law enforcement and respecting the parameters that come with exercising First Amendment rights. There is plenty to protest right now: the Trump administration’s downplaying of this virus; the racist rhetoric that has endangered Asian Americans; lack of personal protective equipment for

essential workers; the broken patchwork health care system that leaves millions without health care during a global pandemic; the inadequate safety net for the 40 percent of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, to name a few. But I will not take to the streets and endanger lives. This moment is about looking out for one another, and prioritizing communal health. It is shameful that the right does not recognize this, and that their leaders don’t take them to task. It perpetuates a hypocritical and biased system, one that unfairly discriminates against communities of color and minorities. I call upon Mr. Zeldin to repudiate his base’s dangerous actions and ask them to stay home, where we all belong right now. Shoshana Hershkowitz Founder, Suffolk Progressives South Setauket

I cringed when I read last week’s letter praising Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) as having performed with “grace, empathy, intelligence, fortitude, patience and a humanity that has been sorely lacking.” It contained no reference of his lack of empathy for our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and veterans. As a health care professional, I do not believe Cuomo knows first thing about infection control. Nursing homes are not hospitals. Would anyone go to a nursing home first in the case of sudden illness or an emergency? These facilities had next to no warning about the incoming coronavirus patients, nor did they have sufficient personnel, equipment, and medication needed. Cuomo said, “It’s not the state’s job to provide the state nursing homes with PPEs.” He recently had the temerity to state

with a straight face that he plans to investigate nursing homes over fatalities when he was the one that ordered sick people to go there, where those with the most fragile health live. In the aftermath, he stated that the nursing homes owners were to blame for the deaths and that they were “greedy.” He gave a snarky answer when asked by a reporter about the situation saying, “ohhh money” implying that the homes held onto their residents because if they didn’t, they would “no longer be getting paid.” He threatened their licenses stating, “They have to do the job they’re paid to do, and if they’re not doing their job ... they’re violating state regulations.” Cuomo likes to sing his own praises only to follow it by whining that he needed thousands upon thousands of ventilators, or that the state is broke, and he needs help

from the federal government after wasting hundreds of millions on failed ideas instead of preparing for a pandemic when he had the opportunity. President Donald Trump (R) sent New York the USNS Comfort and converted the Javits Center to a hospital. At Cuomo’s request, the Comfort was modified to accept coronavirus patients. Why didn’t he send coronavirus patients to these mostly empty facilities? My aunt recently died in a Staten Island nursing home from the coronavirus. I am sure Cuomo would have never done what he did if his mother, Matilda, was in any of them. When it comes to the death of our most vulnerable, the person that most needs to be investigated is Gov. Cuomo. Susan Kerr Stony Brook

Cuomo’s Nursing Home Orders Have Caused Harm

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Opinion

People Share Lockdown Habits, Both Healthy and Unhealthy

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erek has eaten more pizza in the past six weeks than he has in the previous three years. Heather feels like an insect, trapped late in the night in the electric glow of her screen. Steve drinks too much Coke Zero and Eliene stays up way too late and wears the same pants too often. In response to email questions, several Long Islanders shared their healthiest and least healthy habits during the D. None lockdown. of the above Derek Poppe, BY DANIEL DUNAIEF who is a spokesman for County Executive Steve Bellone (D), has been able to work off some of the pizza he’s eating at lunch by running outside, which he started doing after the gym he has attended for seven years closed

seven weeks ago. “I have also tried my hand at meditation which has been incredible since, really, from the time we wake up to when we go to bed, we are surrounded by all things COVID-19,” Poppe wrote in an email. Bellone, meanwhile, rides his Peloton stationary bike early in the morning or late at night. The county executive also sometimes runs at 10:30 p.m. before beginning to prepare for the next morning’s meetings and radio calls. Bellone’s least healthy habits include ramping up his consumption of Coke Zero. Sara Roncero-Menendez from Stony Brook, meanwhile, walks around her neighborhood on sunny days. When the weather gets rough, she does YouTube yoga. She’s also been crocheting and cross-stitching, getting a head start on holiday gifts. “It’s been a good way to keep busy and actually have something to show for it at the end,” Roncero-Menendez wrote. Like many others in New York and around the world, Roncero-Menendez has spent too

much time glued to her screens and also hasn’t been sleeping well. Karen McNulty-Walsh from Islip does 30 minutes of yoga, takes her dog for walks, and gets out of bed regularly between 6 and 7 a.m. each morning. Pete Genzer from Port Jefferson Station has been cooking dinner every night, which is “good in terms of eating healthy food, and I also really enjoy cooking so it’s mentally stimulating and relaxing.” Genzer’s least healthy habit is “sitting in the same, non-ergonomic chair all day long doing work and attending virtual meeting after virtual meeting.” Larry Swanson and his wife Dana, who live in Head of the Harbor, enjoy their daily walks with their aging Chesapeake Bay retriever Lily. Dana is growing food in the yard and has found it a “new, interesting and nice experience being with her grumpy old husband for so much for the time,” Larry Swanson wrote. Indeed, in the 56 years of their marriage, the Swansons have never spent as much time as

they have together during lockdown. Dana’s unhealthiest habit is watching the news. Heather Lynch from Port Jefferson said she feels like the insect trapped in the glowing screen. On the positive side, she continues to work out every day, which she describe as more of an addiction than a habit. Eliene Augenbaum, who lives in the Bronx and works on Long Island, has eaten homecooked food and had deep conversations with friends. On the unhealthy side, she stays up too late, wears the same pants, and shops for vacations and shoes that are of little use during lockdown. A friend from New York City, who makes her own meals and walks her dogs, takes her temperature several times a day, has eaten her emergency, huge bag of Chex mix in one sitting and obsesses over why everyone else has medical-style masks on the street while she’s seeking viral protection behind a pillowcase wrapped around her head.

Memories of My Mother and Lilacs

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hen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem written by the great Walt Whitman as an elegy for the great Abe Lincoln, who died around this time in May of 1865. For me, it too honors my mother, whom I also regard as great, as I guess we all do our mothers, if in a more personal context. I think of my mother whenever lilacs bloom because she loved the flower, with its Between heart-shaped leaves and its perfume you and me fragrance, and beBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF cause she died right around Mother’s Day when, to me also in her honor, lilacs bloom.

My mother grew up in the earliest years of the 20th century in Corona, a then-countrified section of Queens in New York City. She told us that on her way to elementary school, she sometimes had to wait for the cows in front of her to finish crossing the road, which is certainly a different picture than what I saw of the neighborhood when I was shown the house in which she and her siblings, parents and maiden aunt lived. (That last is an expression from a century ago.) She also lovingly described the backyard as “completely filled with lilac bushes whose scent filled the entire block.” My mother was the bridge for her parents and older siblings between the Ukraine, from which they emigrated, speaking not a word of English, and America, the repository of their dreams. She was probably 4 years old when they arrived and moved into the house on Corona Avenue, and she was sent off to school where she learned the language and brought it home, along with the ways of the new country. That she was bright must have been apparent to the teachers because she was skipped grades twice during those early

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years and graduated from junior high or middle school when she was 11. Although she yearned to go on to high school and college, her father had suffered a debilitating stroke, and she, along with her older brother and sister, were obligated to work and support the family of nine. She won a scholarship to what was then called a “business school,” where she learned in record time to be a credentialed bookkeeper and was hired as such by a man named Mr. Mosler, a member of the well-known family that made Mosler Safes and Vaults. My mother worked all her life, arranging her work hours somehow around the responsibilities of caring for my father and three children. She was well ahead of her time, of course, as a “businesswoman,” but apparently neither she nor my father thought it odd that she should have a work life outside the home. It was apparent to me at an early age that she was different from the mothers of my friends. She didn’t bake cakes or cookies, was a terrible cook — except during holidays when she focused on preparing delicious meals — didn’t knit and didn’t seem

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interested in stylish clothes. Indeed, it would have been strange had she been restricted to the home for all her adult life since she was both worldly and had a manner that I would today call “commanding,” despite her short stature. She was occasionally asked if she were a lawyer. For all of that veneer, my mother was generous, warm and affectionate with all of us, had a great laugh, had a close and supportive relationship with my father, and together they provided a safe and nurturing home in which we were raised. My mother reaches the level akin to sainthood, in my opinion, because of the way she welcomed and raised my younger sister, who had Down syndrome. Despite the prevailing attitudes then, in 1942 when my sister was born, of stigma and institutionalization, my mother insisted that my sister had a right to a “normal” life within the family and to learn and grow to the fullest extent of her capability. Again, my mother was way ahead of her time.

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