Phase 3 in RI: Staying the course, alone
As Rhode Island literally leads the nation in rate of decline for cases of COVID-19, Gov. Gina Raimondo moved forward with plans to enter Phase 3 of reopening the state […]
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The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
No Doctor? No Problem!: Before the pandemic, were people overusing health care?
In mid-April, as the medical world braced to contain the incoming flood from the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and patients alike were concerned about the disruption of preventative and elective health […]
RI COVID-19 Exposure: Surprisingly low, but highly disproportionate by race
Only 2.2% of Rhode Island residents have antibodies in their blood, known as “sero-prevalence,” against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, Brown University Professor Philip Chan, MD, the consultant medical […]
RI Enters Phase 1 of Reopening: The rules are clear, but poorly communicated
RI Gov. Gina Raimondo allowed her stay-at-home executive order to expire March 8, the next day beginning “Phase 1” of at least three such phases, each expected to last at […]
A Toast!: RKO Army Raises $4,100 for RI Pride Food Drive
“The Rocky Horror Stay-at-Home Show” was an online event on May 8 that raised more than $4,100 for the RI Pride Emergency Supply Drive, a COVID-19 relief program that provides […]
Smoothing the Curve: Recent data display from the gov is more artistic than mathematic
RI Gov. Gina Raimondo at her press conference on Saturday, May 2, displayed a chart showing new hospitalizations per day from March 13 to April 26. The point of the […]
The Speed of Infection: Why does COVID-19 spread so rapidly?
Had it been possible to contain COVID-19 in any reasonable manner, this illness would have attracted no more attention than the seasonal flu. For most of us, the symptoms are […]
Pandemic Non-fiction: What you don’t know can kill you
There is no shortage of books about diseases through human history, but a few have become definitive classics. I’ve curated an admittedly highly opinionated selection of the best. Some books […]
Mask Up!: Project Mask RI relies on volunteer help to get masks to those in need
Last month, the CDC revised its guidelines on face masks, encouraging people to wear some kind of face covering, and overnight, face masks became a fixture of our coronavirus world. […]
Stay-at-Home Order Expiration Expected, but not a Foregone Conclusion: Read our summary of Governor Raimondo’s May 1 press conference
Governor Gina Raimondo had her daily press conference today at 1pm. “We seem to have hit a plateau, and that is good news,” she said. “We’re still not in a […]