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“The PPE shortage hit us hard,” he said. “Hospitals get first dibs.”

With supplies scarce, the virus spreading and patients dying, Folan and his staff took it upon themselves to secure their own protective equipment, some of which they donated to Smithtown Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care.

“What’s great about the face shield is that it’s reusable,” Folan said. “It can be cleaned and sanitized.”

Prior to receiving the Railex face shield order, he said that medical staff had resorted to wearing goggles, which are uncomfortable and hard to clean.

“It’s nice to know that your neighbor has the ingenuity to solve an urgent problem,” he said.

Today Railex is making about 1,200 face shields each day to keep up with current demand. Sobel said his company is happy to accept orders for the face shields, whether it’s one or thousands.

All around, people were happy to get involved, to innovate on the fly using new Registered nurse Alba Sanchez, from Smithtown Center for techniques to help make a difference in a Rehabilitation and Nursing Care, wears a face shield to protect herself desperate situation, Ecker said. from exposure to airborne coronavirus splatter. Photo from Dr. John Folan

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Local residents have pulled together in extraordinary ways to help fight COVID-19. Among them is Setauket resident Richard Sobel, a partner in a new venture that’s bringing protective face shields for health care workers to the marketplace.

Sobel co-owns a company that produces conveyor systems. Like so many other businesses, he had to temporarily close operations due to the pandemic. Once he learned that Stony Brook University Hospital needed 5,000 face shields, he sprang into action.

He reached out to Jeremy Donovan and Stan Winston, teachers at The Stony Brook School, where his son Owen is enrolled. He read that a few students there were using 3D printing to make masks for the hospital.

“I knew my manufacturing facility could quickly produce these face shields,” he said.

Together with David Ecker, director of Stony Brook University’s iCreate Lab, and his team of innovators, a

collaboration was born.

Sobel retooled his factory, rehired seven furloughed workers full time and recruited volunteers that included his own children and other local high school and college students. Sobel’s company Railex, delivered 5,000 face shields in four days to the university hospital at no charge, using equipment donated by Lowes, Home Depot, P.C. Richard & Son, JPG Electric, LPR Precision, North Shore Tool and The Stony Brook School.

“Without any one of these organizations, this would have never happened,” Sobel said.

But what started as a charitable act soon turned into an important essential business.

After donating the initial supply to Stony Brook University, Sobel’s company began selling the face shields, mainly to mid-sized and smaller health care facilities and to medical professionals themselves.

Dr. John Folan, a local physician, was among Sobel’s first customers. His practice cares for aging and vulnerable patients at rehab and assisted living centers in St. James and Smithtown. Prior to the pandemic, Folan explained that health care facilities had supplied the equipment to

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Sheldon Polan, Longtime Optician, Dies at 92

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Sheldon Polan, of Selden, died April 23. He was 92.

Polan was featured in a Nov. 6, 2018, TBR News Media article for his work at the Long Island State Veteran’s Home in Stony Brook.

The WWII veteran, who served his time at West Point, and an optician, would visit veterans at the home every Thursday to measure and fit patients for glasses and adjust the spectacles when they come in.

At the time of the interview, he had been helping out at the home for seven years through his son Andy Polan’s business, Stony Brook Vision World, which is an affiliated practitioner of the veterans home.

The number of patients the optician would see would vary from one or two to seven or eight, depending on the day. In the 2018 interview, Sheldon said he enjoyed talking to his fellow veterans about their military experiences.

“It gives you a common ground,” the optician said. “It kind of relaxes them too. It’s not, ‘What are you going to do next?’”

A few years ago, Polan took 20 examinations to renew his license. Through the decades, he had seen a lot of advances in eyeglasses, including eyewear going from thick glass, where eyeglass wearers felt like they were wearing Coke bottles, to lighter plastics. Polan said in the interview that he occasionally helped his son out at Stony Brook Vision World, relieving some of the rigors of business ownership.

Being an optician wasn’t the veteran’s original career plan though. He said he was making a

Frank Casano

Frank Casano, of South Setauket, died April 14 at St. Charles Hospital, where he served as a respiratory therapist for 35years.

He was born in Brooklyn in 1948.

To all who knew Frank, his pride in his country was evident.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1968, following his father’s service in the U.S. Army. He arrived in Vietnam July 4, 1969, where he served as a Navy Corpsman with the 1st Marine Division.

He was honored to see his son Frank serve in the U.S. Army, continuing the family legacy.

Once stateside, he worked as a respiratory therapist in several Long Island hospitals,

Left, Sheldon Polan, center, with his son Andy Polan, left, and Fred Sganga, executive director of the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, during one of his weekly visits to the home. Above, in uniform during WW II. Photos from Andy Polan

good living working for a large gas station in Brooklyn after the war, but freezing temperatures in the winter made it difficult to work sometimes.

His brother, who was an optician, suggested he go to college to learn to become one.

“I went into the school, I liked what I saw, and I persevered,” he said.

Polan went on to work for 30 years with

Dr. Norman Stahl in Garden City, who was the founder of Stahl Eyecare Experts, one of the first ophthalmologist offices in New York to use LASIK surgery when it became available in the U.S. in the 1990s.

Polan said visiting veterans, where even a simple greeting means a lot to them, is important.

“Once I saw what I was giving to them and

what I was getting back, I was hooked,” the optician said. “You got to feel for these people.”

Polan leaves behind his wife, Beverly and son Andy, daughter Betsy (Paul) and two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A funeral was held April 26 at Wellwood Cemetery in West Babylon, and a remote shivah was available through Zoom April 26 through April 30.

including St. Charles and Mather hospitals in Port Jefferson and 15 years at North Shore Pulmonary Associates. Those closest to Frank knew him best for his quick wit, sense of humor and compassionate caregiving.

He was incredibly fond of “The Godfather” and would often quote, “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

Frank was a loving father to his children Frank (Ashley) Casano and Gina Casano, a devoted husband to Gail Casano, caring brother to Rosemary Becker (William) and proud grandfather to Frankie and Giuliana, as well as a supportive uncle to numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents Frank and Adele Casano and has been laid to rest with them at the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale. In lieu of flowers, the family recommends a donation to the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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Frank served in the Coast Guard from 1950 to 1956 (during the Korean War).

He had degrees in physics from Adelphi University and math from Stony Brook University. Frank worked as an aerospace engineer at Grumman Aerospace Corporation where one of his many accomplishments included working on the development of the Lunar Module.

A memorial mass will be celebrated at a later date at St. James R.C. Church where Frank was a member for 50 years. If you would like to make a donation in his memory please consider the following preferences: A contribution toward a memorial bench by the Pieta in the plaza adjacent to St. James R.C. Church or to the Mother Theresa Council of the Knights of Columbus. Either donation can be sent to St. James R.C. Church, 429 Route 25A, Setauket, NY 11733. Or, Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation www.alzinfo.org/donate/donation_form/.

Francis W. Kratochvil, a 50-year resident of the Three Village area, died April 17 at Stony Brook University Hospital succumbing to the coronavirus. He was 89.

Frank is survived

by Marie, his wife of 63 years; his children Sharon (Nick), Peter (Lydia), Thomas (Nancy), Dolores White (Chuck) and Marianne Kasoff (Britt); grandchildren Ryan, Brittany, Gregory, Sara, Zachary, Leah, Natalie, Michael, Drake and Bennett and his sister, Ann Malone (Jack); his older brother, Joseph (Freda), predeceased him last year. He is also survived by 25 nieces and nephews.

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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.

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

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

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.”

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How Local Catholic Health Hospitals are Handling the Pandemic

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNREWSMEDIA.COM St. Charles Hospital ICU nurse Kacey McIntee, walking through the halls of a hospital in the midst of a pandemic, is just one of a score of RNs who have watched their world flip the wrong way around.

Where once the hospital had one Intensive Care Unit, now it has three. Every time she gets to work, she slips into hospital-issued scrubs and she’s assigned to one of the three units. Every single bed is housing a patient on a ventilator, nearly 40 in all. She’s bedecked in a mask, hair covering and face shield.

Typically, the ratio is two ICU patients to one ICU nurse. However, now there are cases where she cares for up to three patients, alongside a helper nurse. She starts her day by looking at her assigned patients’ charts, and then spends the rest of her 12-hour shift doing her best to keep these patients, many in such dire straits, alive.

“A lot of times you can kind of expect something is going to go bad just based on blood values alone,” she said. “We mentally prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario with our patients.”

It’s a common story among many medical centers, but local hospitals St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown and Port Jefferson’s St. Charles, both in the Catholic Health Services system, have been on the front lines of fighting the virus for longer than others, having seen their first COVID-19 positive patients March 8.

Jacquelina VandenAkker, a 33-year veteran respiratory therapist at St. Charles and Port Jeff resident, said while the past week has shown what seems to be a plateauing in the number of new cases, the first 10 days of the virus “was hell. You didn’t know the end of it.”

“We felt it was literally such a war zone.

You knew you could be a victim to it because you don’t understand it,” she said.

Hospital officials confirmed there were a number of staff who have contracted COVID-19, but declined to release the number of employees who have been infected, citing that staff did not want it known if they’ve been previously infected.

“We see a lot of deaths,” the respiratory therapist said. “I take the same unit. I know my patients. We start to understand the disease a lot more.”

McIntee, a Sound Beach resident, knows the pain and suffering of the COVID-19 patients suffering. It’s hard not to become entangled in the lives of these people, knowing the pain of suffering when the family can only communicate via tablet computer and online video chats.

“Nurses are really, really good at coping mechanisms,” she said. “One of the most useful ones is humor and the other is detachment. We cannot picture our loved ones in the bed — if we hear that one of our loved ones is sick with COVID, all bets are off, we are a mess.”

Left, Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler, the director of St. Charles Hospital Emergency Department. Right, nursing assistant Martha Munoz. Photos by Marilyn Fabbricante

When it comes to that, when what has universally been the once inconceivable is happening moment to moment, McIntee said they rely on their fellow nurses.

“It’s almost as if we’re all in war together, and we have this bond for life that we will always be connected together, that we had these experiences that really nobody else in the world can experience except during this time,” she said.

The Initial Wave and Beyond

Jim O’Connor, the president of St. Charles and chief administrative officer of St. Catherine of Siena, said hospitals faced initial difficulties but hope things continue to look up.

“Both St. Charles and St. Catherine had their first COVID-19 patient on the same day,” he said. “We struggled to keep up with it and the personal protective equipment we needed in that first week. Thankfully we seem to have gotten our sea legs.”

Only about 25 percent of patients who are diagnosed require hospitalization, but of that 25 percent, 50 percent require ICU care, and many of them require a ventilator, O’Connor said.

Even before Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) mandates shutting down all essential businesses, hospital admin said they saw what they call a “surge” of patients.

Bonnie Morales, the director of infection prevention for St. Catherine, said she and other specialists at hospitals around Long Island had started preparing for the “what ifs” a few weeks before it finally came, but even then, it was hard to estimate just how much it would overtake the entire health care system.

“I would have to say we were prepared, but that line list [of staff procedures] I went back to in the beginning, has grown from a page to three pages long,” she said.

The precautions for reducing infections became one of the most supreme considerations with both patients and staff, she said. Morales,

a Selden resident, said the average patient on “transmission-based precautions” which were before only meant to help patients and staff avoid contact, has now gone from 20 to 30, up to over 100 that are currently on these transmission-based precautions because of the virus.

The hospitals had what the admin called a surge plan, but as the St. Charles president put it, “a man plans, and God laughs.” Learning just how many beds they would have to increase to was staggering, but he thanked the admin team who worked with barely little notice to start the process of acquiring more beds and space.

After Cuomo announced an executive order mandating hospitals increase their bed capacity by at least 50 percent, St. Charles and St. Catherine have boosted the number of beds to 243 in St. Charles and 296 beds at St. Catherine.

Mike Silverman, the COO at St. Catherine, said early on the hospitals decided to close access to the public. It was something that was unpopular to start, but in hindsight has been a smart decision.

Silverman only joined the hospital little more than two months ago and has had a trial by fire in the truest sense of the phrase.

“I don’t think anybody thought this was going to happen,” he said. “There was no playbook for this ... It’s a lot of people doing what needs to be done,” he said.

O’Connor said the hospitals hit a high in the number of patients in the previous weeks, but since they have been climbing, inch by strenuous inch, off of that peak. Since the start of the outbreak, St. Charles has gone from eight ventilators to nearly 37 at peak. St. Catherine had 35 at peak. Each hospital has transformed its space to accommodate the massive number of critical patients by creating two new ICUs in each. All elective surgeries have been suspended and those workers have been moved to aid COVID-19 patients.

“There’s definitely some angst,” Silverman said. “We know how many people are dying in

the state, and we would see this many deaths in a week. It’s tough, whether it’s at work, whether its friends or friends’ families.”

Both admin and health staff agreed the community has done an incredible amount of support for the health care workers. There have been consistent donations of meals, snacks and drinks. There have been a rollout of homemade masks and PPE supplies as well, along with cards and notes thanking the health care workers for all they do.

Still, to say it hasn’t taken an emotional toll would be wrong. “It has been very tough on the staff because there is a very high mortality rate for people on ventilators,” O’Connor said.

“What compounds it we weren’t allowed to have visitors so that really adds a whole different isolation for the patient and the families.”

The hospital has been using tablet computers to connect patients with family members at home, but it has also meant having to give them difficult news about those family members remotely.

“They have their own fears understandably about it. They have their own families they go home to that they worry about spreading it to,” he said. “I give them so much credit for them to put themselves at risk to be in a room with someone with a contagious disease.”

There have been moments of hope throughout the day in between the darkness.

Every time a patient comes off a ventilator, the hospital plays “Breathe” by Faith Hill over the loudspeaker. When a patient is dismissed from the hospital, they then play the classic Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun.”

Hospitals’ PPE

O’Connor said the hospitals sterilize the PPE used by hospital workers at the end of each shift, and after the N95 is used three times then it is discarded, though if it becomes “soiled or contaminated” then it is discarded before that.

Normally, such masks are not designed to be reused, but with supplies tight, hospitals and other medical centers have been looking to get as much use out of equipment as possible.

“We know it is not a perfect system,” O’Connor said. “Nobody expected to have this patient volume, but I think we’ve done a good job, but is it perfect? No.” The federal Office of Emergency Management has added to supplies, along with donations from companies and other local individuals. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has made guidelines for decontaminating such equipment, and hospital administration said they are following those guidelines. Catholic health systems announced earlier this month they had created an ultraviolet light sterilization system for masks in CHS hospitals.

The New York State Nurses Association has taken issue with the hospital’s practice of HOSPITALS Continued on A5

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Continued from A4 reusing such PPE as N95 masks after they’ve been sterilized. The union points to mask manufacturer 3M, who said there were no disinfection methods that would kill the virus and maintain effectiveness, though the CDC’s website cites numerous sources related to the positive results of disinfecting such masks.

Though a union representative could not be reached by press time, nurse representatives have spoken to other news outlets saying that both hospitals lacked PPE supplies, and that unlike systems, nurses in St. Charles and St. Catherine were made to wear gowns for an entire shift that are meant to be disposed of after one patient encounter.

McIntee said at the start of the pandemic, things were confused with PPE, with the CDC changing its guidelines constantly. Regarding gowns, she said hospital workers have a choice, they can either spray down reusable gowns with a cleaning solution in between patients, use disposable blue/plastic gowns, or the so-called bunny suits, the full-body white suits with a hood. With face shields, there are no other choices than rinsing it with solution.

Now, McIntee said if a worker wears an N95 mask continuously throughout the day in a 12-hour shift, they can discard them. If they wear them intermittently throughout the day, then they are bagged and sent to

Library Hosts Virtual Series, Classes, Tech Talk

be sterilized at night. Sterilized masks then can be worn intermittently three more days before they are discarded.

“Not once have I ever had an issue with the N95 masks being told ‘no, you can’t have one,’” she said. “I’ve always been able to have access to any PPE I wanted …

Now I think we have a system down, and it’s less anxiety.”

St. Catherine April 22 accepted a donation of gowns and masks from the Kings Park Chamber of Commerce, and Morales said the bevy of donations they have received have truly helped in the fight against COVID-19.

The hospital has received donations of tie back and bunny suits.

Regarding St. Catherine staff reusing gowns, Morales said, “We are giving out supplies for the staff to utilize and they have what they need in order to take care of their patients.”

O’Connor said the hospitals have been doing multiple things to aid the front line workers, including bringing in agency staff and repurposing staff from outpatient to inpatient services to add more hands on deck. The hospitals have developed quiet rooms for staff to catch their breath, and Silverman said St. Catherine has a service where staff can purchase basic items, they have little time to get from working long days during the pandemic.

“It would be very foolish for us to not keep our staff safe,” O’Connor said. “Why would we possibly not be doing anything we can to keep them safe?”

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County Golf Club Swings into Action

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It was a hole in one for Stony Brook University Hospital workers April 5 when the Nissequogue Golf Club donated 600 meals to the facility. The club followed up that act of kindness with a donation of 120 meals to the Suffolk County Police Headquarters in Yaphank April 16.

According to the club’s general manager, Barry Chandler, the hot, homemade meals included meatballs and rigatoni. The club also donated 25 cases of bottled water to the hospital.

Chandler approached the club’s president Art Seeberger with the idea of donating to the hospital and Seeberger then asked the club’s board for approval. The club’s president then made the initial contribution of $500, and Chandler matched it.

The planning process began with Chandler contacting the hospital to ensure all the details were covered before the delivery. The 1,600 meatballs, 200 pounds of rigatoni and 110 gallons of sauce which made up the first meals for hospital workers were prepared by the club’s chef Joseph Badalato and his kitchen crew.

Chandler said meatballs were an easy choice for the meals.

“Our chef is Italian, and we love his meatballs,” he said. “So he gets the whole gang together in the kitchen,

anyone who can help, and we start rolling meatballs based on his specifications.”

When it came to the delivery to Stony Brook University Hospital, club member Ann Shybunko-Moore lent her truck to transport the meals, and Seeberger, Chandler, Badalato and sous chef Vince Minelli made the delivery. Chandler said SBU had someone greet them at the door with carts and hospital employees brought the food in so the volunteers didn’t have to step inside the hospital.

According to the golf club manager, other hospitals and first responders were reaching out to its offices to see if they too may have their first responders fed by Nissequogue Golf Club. A wife of one of the workers at Suffolk County Police Headquarters heard about the golf club’s good deed and asked if food could be delivered to the Yaphank facility. Chandler said the club received a card after the delivery signed by more than 50 of the employees at headquarters.

The golf club staff is currently discussing the next group to feed, which most likely will be health care workers at another hospital.

Pictured, Nissequogue Golf Club staff members deliver food to SBU hospital, top and bottom left; bottom right Barry Chandler delivers food to the Suffolk County Police Headquarters.

— Photos from Nissequogue Golf Club

Perspective

Memories of The Village Times 44 Years Later I enjoyed reading publisher Leah Dunaief’s editorial on the 44th anniversary of The Village Times in the April 16 issue [“Between You and Me: A Milestone Almost Lost Amid COVID-19 Chaos”] and her account of its origins. I remember my own delight when By Elof Axel Carlson it first appeared, and I regularly purchased a copy at the supermarket where I shopped when my wife and I lived in Setauket.

What impressed me were the ways the

publisher and staff wove local activities, reviews of plays and films, and much to my delight, historical articles on the early days of the community and its historical contributors.

The inclusion of an Arts and Lifestyles section was a particularly nice addition because it has so many nice articles and accounts of the diverse culture in this area of Long Island.

It was a thrill for me when the publisher unearthed a packet of sample articles I had sent from the bottom of a pile on her desk and wrote to me that she would begin publishing my Life Lines columns. It was a wonderful opportunity to talk about science and show how it connects us to the world of liberal arts and makes us appreciate life and how it works and our need to care for it in the brief time we

are allowed to savor this universe.

I used to post my first articles on my door in the Life Sciences Building at Stony Brook University and graduate students would enjoy browsing them. After the door was filled, I started to post additional copies on the walls by my door until I ran out of room! I got nice feedback from graduate students.

Thank you also for giving Daniel and David Dunaief an opportunity to write about science, medicine and the community. There are few local papers that cover as much science as this paper does, and it is so important to the education of voters in a democracy to know what science is doing.

My wife Nedra and I are now in assisted living in Meadowood, a retirement community on the

campus of Indiana University that was founded

by IU’s President, Herman Wells. It is nice to have such a community of former faculty and staff and students as the predominant members of this community. Before the pandemic selfquarantine, we much enjoyed having our dinners with other couples every night and getting to know their lives and accomplishments. I am grateful that we continue to receive a copy of The Village Times Herald every week which I read cover to cover.

Elof Axel Carlson is a distinguished teaching professor emeritus in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University. He writes a monthly column, Life Lines, in the Arts & Lifestyles section of the paper.

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Editorial

Love Thy Neighbor

As the number of COVID-19 cases rise in minority communities at a higher rate than primarily white areas, North Shore residents may think those numbers don’t affect them, but they do.

The members of these communities are our co-workers, our restaurant workers, our laborers, our neighbors — whether they live next door or in the next town. The pandemic has made it glaringly obvious many of our society’s problems, among them the disparities minorities face on Long Island.

A good deal of information coming out about coronavirus cases shows that black and Hispanic Americans are dying of the disease at rates higher than Caucasians. In Suffolk black residents make up 13 percent of those who have died from the virus and Latinos 14 percent. These numbers are high considering black Americans make up just 8 percent of Suffolk County residents.

Latinos are approximately 19 percent of the population, but the number of cases among the immigrant community is likely very undercounted, as crucial information about the virus has had a harder time reaching non-English speakers.

Many from these communities work “essential” jobs in service and blue-collar industries, many of which pay a lower income overall. This can lead to poor or no health care, which would hinder someone from visiting a doctor when they become sick. It also means many who would rather stay home lack a choice but to go out and work, potentially bringing the virus home to their families.

While Suffolk has identified areas where higher populations are testing positive for COVID-19, and in turn are extending testing in those areas, more can be done for these populations.

This virus has reminded us that our health care system needs an overhaul — and that these populations are at greater risk due to higher cases of heart disease and diabetes. While it may be too late to make major changes during this pandemic, there are small things we can do right now.

For one, this is no time for one to worry about a person’s immigration status. During a pandemic, as health care professionals and elected officials try to manage the storm, everyone who is currently in the U.S. needs to know they can go to a hospital with no questions asked to receive the care they need. There also needs to be a way to provide alternating housing for those who come down with the virus, whether that means opening up hotel rooms or college dorms. There are many, right here on Long Island, who live in crowded apartments and houses. Situations like those make it difficult for someone to isolate themselves from others to prevent more infections.

For those living in houses with multiple generations, this also presents a huge danger to vulnerable populations like the elderly.

Personal protective equipment has been in short supply throughout the country, and it’s up to elected officials as well as business owners to ensure that their employees have the proper amount of gloves, masks and other gear to do their jobs. It shouldn’t matter whether they’re on the front lines at hospitals or cleaning bathrooms in a medical facility, serving as home health aides, delivering groceries or working the fields.

There is always more we can do for our friends and neighbors.

One day this pandemic will pass but let’s hope the lessons we’ve learned, especially about those who have suffered because of inequities, will stick with us and inspire us to do better.

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We Have the Capacity to Come Out of This Stronger In these scary and unprecedented times it is hard to imagine what life will be like once we are able to move freely amongst our peers again. Every day I wake up, trying to remember what day of the week it is, and prepare myself for another day of “distance learning” for both me and my daughter. Together we work on our respective tasks and then we move on to what has become our new routine of playing outside, going for walks, painting and creating uplifting messages to write in chalk at the end of our driveway. Around 11:30 a.m. I prepare myself for Gov. Cuomo’s daily briefing, and I watch and listen intently to what our tireless leader has to share.

For those who are too ignorant to grasp the severity and reality of this global pandemic and can only find complaint and ridicule in the length of our state-wide shutdown, I ask you to take a good long look at what is happening in New York. I’m not asking too much, I

don’t want you to acknowledge that this is affecting the entire world, I just want you to glance beyond Trumpian rhetoric and look at the numbers. I want you to recognize that the U.S. has surpassed every country in the world with cases of this horrific virus, that New York has far exceeded the numbers of any other state in our union and that Suffolk County currently has more cases than 45 states.

I want every New Yorker, whether a Cuomo fan or not, to yield to the fact that he has handled this situation with nothing less than grace, empathy, intelligence, fortitude, patience and a humanity that is sorely lacking in the current federal administration. Every day we are given a detailed, informative update on our current situation from the man leading our state. He is not trying to punish us or impede upon our rights, he is trying to keep us alive.

Yes, our economy is faltering. Yes, our kids are not getting the same level of education that they would receive in

their classrooms. Yes, we can’t go out gallivanting to our hearts’ desires, but we have the capacity to come out of this stronger than ever before.

We have fearless health care workers and other essential employees doing the work that I do not envy. They are putting themselves out there so we don’t have to and people would rather complain about being kept home then say thank you, and I’ll see you when it’s safe again.

Those who are determined to remain misinformed and oblivious to our reality I ask you to, just once, think about the millions of other people who would like to come out of this on the other side.

When the virus is in check, and we can resume some sort of normalcy you can put Fox News back on and enjoy, but for the sake of everyone else, put it on PAUSE, stay home, stop the spread and save lives. New York Tough!

Stefanie Werner East Setauket

Remembering Carl’s Community Contribution I read with great sympathy the obituary for Carl Hanes, the former vice president for Finance and Management at Stony Brook University.

While many of his accomplishments were listed, one of his great contributions during his tenure was his strong support and commitment to allowing the Three Village/Stony Brook Soccer Club to use a portion of the university for our games.

His support, along with former presidents John Marburger and Shirley Strum Kenny and other staff such as

Gary Matthews and Tony Bastin, was instrumental in providing the P lot property for free during the many years of his service for the children of our community to enjoy.

Mr. Hanes fully understood that the university was more than just a set of buildings for its students, it was the center of life for the entire Three Village community and his support never wavered.

All of our children who played soccer at the P lot fields and all of the community who participated in our events, owe him

Grateful for Assistance from Afar It is always gratifying to get important assistance from afar, especially during a pandemic.

The Stony Brook University Mathematics Department recently received 1,000 surgical face masks from Chinese mathematicians who were former students or associates of the department.

They also sent 13,000 surgical face masks to the university as a whole.

They are: Long Li, Zheng Zhang, Chengjian Yao, Xuemiao Chen, Holly Chen, SongSun, Bing Wang, Mingliang Cai, Kai Zheng, Haozhao Li, Xiaowei Xu, Qing Chen, Dafeng Zuo, Bin Xu and Yongqiang Liu.

a great debt of gratitude and thanks.

He will always be remembered fondly by me and all of the other community residents who worked with him to make the P lot fields possible.

I am hopeful that the new Stony Brook University president understands what being part of our community means.

She should understand what it meant to Carl Hanes.

Mitchell H. Pally Former President of the Three Village/Stony Brook Soccer Club

We in the mathematics department are particularly grateful for the donation.

It is heartwarming to know that people who trained with us or worked with us are remembering us in these trying times.

David Ebin Professor of Mathematics Stony Brook University

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APRIL 30, 2020 • THE VILLAGE TIMES HERALD • PAGE A19

Opinion

An Interview with an Evasive Subject: Me

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am a journalist, which means I know a tiny bit about numerous subjects, but I am out of my depth once the questions dive below the surface. Oh, sure, I can play the journalistic game, where I throw around some terms, but I’m certainly not qualified to answer the best questions I could ask. Nonetheless, given the quarantine and the difficulty of getting people who are D. None informed, funny, or of the above funny and informed

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF on the phone these days, I’m going to interview myself about the state of the world.

Question: How do you think we’re doing?

Answer: Well, that kind of depends. If we’re talking about humans in general, I would say we’re struggling. We were struggling before,

but this virus has pushed us deeper into our struggles.

Question: Are we any better off today than we were yesterday or maybe last week or the week before?

Answer: Yes, yes we are.

Question: Do you care to elaborate?

Answer: No, no I don’t.

Question: Come on! You can’t just ignore me. I need to know.

Answer: No, you don’t. You’ll read what I write and then you’ll move on to the comment section of other articles, where clever people share their witticisms.

Question: Wait, how do know about the satisfaction I get out of some of the better comments?

Answer: Are you really asking that question?

Question: No, let’s get back on topic. If we’re better off today than we were yesterday or last week, will that trajectory continue? If it does, are we going to be able to live our lives with a new normal that’s more like the older normal, or will we have to wear masks and practice the kind of safe distancing

that makes people long for the days when Jerry Seinfeld was annoyed on his show by a “close talker,” who, in the modern era in New York, would probably get a ticket for his close talking habit?

Answer: You had to pander with a TV reference, didn’t you? Don’t answer that!

Anyway, yes, the trajectory looks better than it did, but there’s no guarantee it won’t change. You see, it’s a little like the stock market. Just because a company’s past performance is solid or impressive doesn’t guarantee anything about its future.

Question: Right, right. So, do you think my kids will ever get out of the house again?

Answer: You buried that question down low, didn’t you? Well, yes, I think they will return to a version of school that may also be different, but that also has some similarities to what they knew.

Question: Oh, good. Wait, so, you don’t really know, do you?

Answer: I do know that schools are pushing hard to solve the riddle, the conundrum, the enigma, the total ##$@!$ fest that has

become the modern world. I know that parents the world over would like to go to the bathroom without someone following them into the room. I know that people would like to talk on the phone without worrying that their kids are listening, that people need adult alone time, and that the Pythagorean theorem isn’t going to teach itself.

Question: What does the Pythagorean theorem have to do with anything?

Answer: It’s out there and it’s on the approved list of things to learn. Are we almost done?

Question: Yes, so what do you think about the election?

Answer: I think it’ll happen in November and it’ll be an interesting opportunity to exercise our democratic rights.

Question: Who do you think will win?

Answer: An old man.

Question: Which one?

Answer: The one who yells at us through the TV. Question: They both do.

Answer: Then I’m going to be right.

Two Poets as Bookends for the COVID-19 Months

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t’s May, it’s May, the merry month of May!” according to the Elizabethan poem by Thomas Dekker and then twisted a bit to “lusty month of May” by “Camelot’s” Lerner and Loewe.

I’m willing to believe them, if you are, and there are a couple of items of good news that we can celebrate in our war against the novel coronavirus as the month begins.

First is the unexpected progress coming from the Between University of Oxyou and me ford toward a vacBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF cine. Despite the earliest hopes for such an effective halt to the COVID-19 pandemic involving a 12 to 18- month timetable,

which would suggest toward the end of 2021, it turns out that scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute are way ahead.

They have been holding previous clinical trials against an earlier coronavirus that are proving harmless to humans. Having cleared that major hurdle, now they can go to the head of the international race. They will be holding trials involving over 6,000 people with their new vaccine toward the end of the month. Not only do they want to show that the vaccine is safe but also that it works.

Then, “with an emergency approval from regulators, the first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to be effective,” according to an article by David D. Kirkpatrick that appeared on the front page of this past Tuesday’s The New York Times.

There is evidence from the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana that this new Oxford vaccine may indeed work. It has been in a limited animal trial there and found to protect against COVID-19.

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Other scientists at Oxford “are working with a half dozen drug manufacturing companies across Europe and Asia to prepare to churn out billions of doses as quickly as possible if the vaccine is approved. None have been granted exclusive marketing rights, and one is the giant Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest supplier of vaccines,” according to the Times.

The idea of having several is to obtain billions of doses quickly and to avoid anyone making a lot of money from the pandemic.

There are a couple of American companies that are also doing research, along the same lines as Oxford, of altering the virus’s genetic material and conducting small clinical trials. They too must demonstrate both safety and effectiveness.

The same goes for a Chinese company.

Another avenue of defense against COVID-19 is the use of blood plasma from the disease’s survivors on other desperately ill patients. Again, according to another article in Wednesday’s The New York Times by Audra D.S. Burch and Amy Harmon, the treatment may work. This involves finding survivors, with the same blood type as the ill patient, who will

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then volunteer to donate blood. The plasma in that blood, now termed convalescent plasma, is then injected into the gravely ill patient in order to bolster the patient’s immune system with new antibodies, “giving him more soldiers in his body to fight this war,” said Dr. Leslie Diaz, an infectious disease specialist at the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in South Florida where there was such treatment administered.

Initially to find such a donor, a frantic search was launched on social media that discovered an appropriate donor some 80 miles away. There is now a national program overseen by the Mayo Clinic, with the approval of the Food and Drug Administration, to use this experimental treatment on 2500 patients in U.S. hospitals.

It should be said, however, that it is not clear whether having antibodies that are not their own would ultimately help or harm patients. This is only an experimental treatment under study.

So as we leave April behind, we should salute the American writer, T. S. Eliot, who began his 1922 landmark poem, “The Waste Land” with the words, “April is the cruelest month.” A hundred years earlier, he knew.

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