Tag: Pandemic
Buildings with drive-thrus scarce on the market
The lap blankets, heat lamps and tent-like enclosures will only carry a restaurant so far in the winter. What restaurants really need are drive-thrus.
Or...
Lead the charge toward change
Scott Fraser | CEO and president, Rhode Island Health Care Association
Stepping into this role 22 months ago, no one could have imagined that helping...
Pandemic pushes some R.I. companies into foreign markets
When one market dries up, smart businesspeople look for another. For some local manufacturers, that’s meant more aggressively looking overseas during the pandemic.
While the...
Clinical trial on plasma makes headway in R.I.
Rhode Island Hospital is one of 30 medical facilities nationwide testing whether a plasma-based treatment for COVID-19 that has been approved for emergency use...
Coverage safety net has plenty of holes
COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically. It also clobbers some financially.
Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick...
What’s the right way to respond to COVID-19 surge?
When the coronavirus began spreading in the U.S. in early spring, governors in hard-hit states took drastic steps to reduce the threat. By shutting...
Many offices are sparsely filled, and it’s having negative effects
When Michael Giuttari returned in late June to his office at MG Commercial Real Estate Services Inc. in the Jewelry District of Providence, he...
To Savor: Visiting vineyards virtually
“When are we going to return to a normal life so we can travel again?” This is a question I hear from many clients...
Many have found ways to give in pandemic crisis
Despite facing a global health crisis and economic recession, more than half of all U.S. households – 56% – expressed some form of generosity...
Near-empty offices show pandemic’s economic effects are widespread
Less-congested morning commutes and near-empty city parking lots are among the most visible signs that workers have not returned to their offices in large...
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