Tag: Covid-19
Is priority vaccine list overcrowded?
Educators and child care employees are poised to become a COVID-19 vaccination priority for Rhode Island, which raises a question for everyone else in...
Economist: ‘This is one of those key moment of the decade’
While many Americans see the COVID-19 vaccine as the barometer of their year, Thomas Tzitzouris is watching a very different event to determine how...
Dining Out: Missing the bigger story
Has good news from restaurant row become the “man bites dog” story of 2021? That’s the old journalism trope used to describe how unusual,...
Now is the time to rebuild our libraries
We’ve all felt the impact of the past year – not being able to carry on with our lives normally, not socializing in person...
New leaders
Are you happy with the changes in leadership among R.I. elected officials this year, including Daniel J. McKee as governor?
Yes: 75%
No: 25%
Unsure: 0%
Are you...
R.I. to loosen limits on restaurants, events and gyms
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will allow restaurants to increase their capacities, and reinstitute dancing at catered events including weddings, according to a briefing from...
New mass-vaccination centers to open in Woonsocket and Middletown
MIDDLETOWN – Rapid vaccination sites for the COVID-19 vaccine will open in the coming weeks at locations in northern Rhode Island and on Aquidneck...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 376, with 9 more deaths
PROVIDENCE – Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 376 on Tuesday with nine more deaths, the R.I. Department of Health said...
Gov. McKee: ‘This is day one’
PROVIDENCE – During a Zoom meeting Wednesday morning, Gov. Daniel J. McKee appeared upbeat and eager to begin serving as Rhode Island's 76th governor....
COVID-19 vaccine subcommittee approves J&J vaccine; McKee restates priority for teachers
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. COVID-19 Vaccine Subcommittee approved the immediate use of the Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine Wednesday morning, days after the federal...