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ICYMI: Rhode Island was up to 127,727 confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, after adding 375 new cases. The overall daily test-positive rate was 1.9 percent, and the first-time positive rate was 19.6 percent. The state announced five more deaths, bringing the total to 2,539. There were 148 people in the hospital, and 82,642 residents had been fully vaccinated.
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By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 2, 2021, 9:25 a.m.
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Gov. Gina Raimondo testifies remotely via videoconference during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on her nomination to be secretary of the Commerce Department, as Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.JONATHAN ERNST/NYT
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COVID-19 numbers are going down, but R.I. isnât out of the woods yet
Letâs take a look at the case rates by city and town
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 10:44 a.m.
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Volunteers and local medical workers inoculate local residents at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, Rhode Island, on Feb. 13, 2021.JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
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The acclaim: That after years of failed efforts, Rhode Island would finally have an integrated, academic-based health system supporting world-class care and research.
The concern: That such a system could result in layoffs and also prove costly to consumers and insurers, as has happened elsewhere in the United States with mergers.
Sen. Joshua Miller, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, falls in the latter camp.
In an email, Miller cited the experience of Massachusetts-based Partners HealthCare, which merged two major hospital systems, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s. The combined system is now called Mass General Brigham.