Governor Gina Raimondo and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander Scott gave the Tuesday COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. The governor is giving one every day this week. Today DOH reports there are 53 new cases of the coronavirus. The test positive rate is 1.5%. Eighty-one people are hospitalized for reasons associated with COVID-19. Eight […]
Governor Raimondo, RIDE commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the 101st COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm, from The Vets Auditorium. As the governor likes to say, today was another good news story when it comes to Ocean State COVID rates. DOH reports 39 new cases of the coronavirus since yesterday, […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green and DOH Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. Today’s data is as follows. DOH reports 74 new cases of the coronavirus. Eighty-nine people are hospitalized for reasons related to the virus; nine of those people are in the ICU, and three people […]
It’s almost a Rhode Island tradition that schools are the news story of the summer, but this year it’s for a different reason. Governor Gina Raimondo announced in June that she expects all students in Rhode Island to receive in-person instruction at the start of the school year. COVID-19 is still endemic in American life, […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green, and DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. Today’s COVID data is as follows: DOH is reporting 84 new cases since yesterday. “Certainly better than the triple digits we’ve been having,” said the governor. Seventy-nine people are hospitalized for reasons related to […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. First today’s COVID data: The governor announced a total of 61 new cases since yesterday. “That’s holding steady,” she said. “That’s the kind of data we like to see.” Seventy-four people are hospitalized for […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, DoH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the weekly COVID press conference today at 1pm. The governor today began with COVID data. Since yesterday, DOH is reporting 76 new cases of the coronavirus. Of those, 67 people are hospitalized with the virus; five of them are in the […]
In the past six weeks, bail funds have taken social media by storm. They’ve been around for a long time — bail’s pretty expensive and there aren’t a lot of people who can afford to fork over a large amounts of money, even if they get it back later. Cash bail sheds light on the […]
COVID has pushed almost all other news out of the limelight, but 2020 is still an election year, and even though the national parties’ presidential primaries wrapped up months ago, the American experiment is still crackling on our local level. With most of the major candidates announced and wrapping up their nomination papers, we’ve put […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and DoA director Brett Smiley gave the COVID-19 press briefing today at 1pm. The data released today is as follows: There are 27 new cases of the coronavirus since yesterday. There are 69 people are in the hospital for causes related to COVID-19; 11 people are in […]