The Donald Wyatt Detention Facility reported 99 COVID-19 cases among its prisoner population yesterday, according to a court filing submitted by the facility. This is up from the 28 positive cases reported in different court filings on October 15. Wyatt staff are also showing a large increase in cases, with 11 cases as of Monday, […]
Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the COVID-19 press briefing today. At time of the presser, today’s data was not available for the Department of Health. Governor Raimondo and Dr. Alexander-Scott instead provided the data from yesterday, saying they were waiting for some final numbers before updating data for today. Yesterday’s […]
Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the weekly COVID press briefing today at 1pm. First, the data since yesterday. Rhode Island saw 160 new COVID cases since yesterday. One hundred thirty-one people are in the hospital, 13 of those people are in the ICU, and four are on ventilators. DOH reports […]
Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the weekly COVID press briefing today at 1pm. Rhode Island has seen 145 new cases of the coronavirus according to data provided by DOH this morning. The governor announced during her comments today that the state performed 9,524 tests with a percent positive rate of […]
After 16 years of service in the Ocean State, Resources for Human Development Rhode Island (RHD-RI) closed its doors at the end of last month. Compared to Rhode Island’s other developmental disability (DD) providers, it’s a small agency, serving approximately 120 clients and only providing daytime service. Its closure was the inevitable result of years […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the weekly COVID press briefing today at 1pm. Today’s data is as follows: There are 121 new cases of COVID-19 and 86 people are hospitalized. Nine are in intensive care units and five people are on ventilators. Hospitalizations are trending downward […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, Dr. Jim McDonald, and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the COVID press briefing today at 1pm. State leadership announced today Rhode Island conducted almost 8,500 tests yesterday, with the governor claiming it as a banner day. DOH reports the percent positive rate of tests is at 0.7%. The reported rate has been […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and DOH director Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the COVID briefing today at 1pm from The Vets auditorium,. Today’s data is as follows: 53 positive COVID cases since yesterday. An additional 22 have also been added to previous days totals. Seventy-eight people are hospitalized for reasons associated with COVID-19, eight […]
How can you rig a local election? If you’re of my parents’ generation, you might pretend to be a dead person and vote, or spend your free time as a Chicago Democrat filling in empty ballots. I always think of the scene from Gangs of New York, where Leonardo DiCaprio bribes and bullies Irish immigrants […]
In the COVID world, we live online more than ever. Everything has gone virtual, people broadcast events on livestreams and a grid of faces in squares no longer signals “The Brady Bunch” intro theme, but a Zoom meeting. Unexpectedly, social justice has moved online as well. If you’ve watched any protest or direct action online […]