In Photos: A Look Inside a Modern Covid-19 Field Hospital in the United States
A Look Inside a Modern Covid-19 Field Hospital in the United States Buzz | Associated Press | February 12, 2021, 6:09 pm
1/ 9 The non-profit Care New England health network opened the Kent Field Hospital on Nov. 30, just before Rhode Island’s infection rate became the highest in the world. Kent Hospital was using all its beds for its sickest COVID-19 patients, and needed somewhere for the overflow. Now, other hospitals also occasionally send patients to the field hospital. Photo: AP
2/ 9 Rhode Island’s infection rate has come down since then, and many of the field hospital’s 335 beds are now empty. On quiet days, the medical staff wishes they could do more. Only stable, non-intubated COVID-19 patients are transferred a few miles to the field hospital, and only if they consent. Some refuse. The idea of a field hospital can conjure up images of giant tents in a war zone, canvas sid
CUMBERLAND As the coronavirus pandemic stretched from days to weeks to months without end, the mental health of Amanda Choiniere’s daughter Isabella, 16, and son, Ben, 13, began to suffer. Home-schooling, social isolation and the transformation of life to the netherworld they and many other children now inhabit exacted a price.
“When a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old can no longer play sports that they usually play or interact with friends they usually hang out with on a normal basis, that impacts, of course, their mental health status,” said Choiniere, who works, remotely now, for Adoption Rhode Island.
Ben, who attends middle school, finds himself frequently frustrated, his mother said.
Last summer, Rhode Island was in the news for what appeared to be a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state’s governor, Gina Raimondo, was lauded for her enterprising approach to the outbreak. Now, just seven months later, the state is struggling with surging deaths from the disease and allegations that leading health care companies unnecessarily vaccinated staff and volunteers not in direct contact with patients, while.
February 5, 2021 11:17 am
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – The Rhode Island COVID-19 Vaccine Subcommittee met Friday morning to discuss where the state is in its vaccine roll-out plan and where it needs to go in the future.
As the process continues, the state continues to battle with who to vaccinate, how to do it, and when.
“How can we get as many vaccines out there as possible through as many channels?” Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott said.
The group discussed problems with equity and reach to certain areas with phase two. Dr. Alexander-Scott says Rhode Island has really put an emphasis on equity within its vaccination plan, rather than speed.
The Rhode Island Department of Health is yet again telling people not to share COVID vaccine registration links.
In a Facebook post Tuesday night, the Department of Health said that it had not yet launched a public vaccination signup website, as other states have done. As part of its vaccination of outpatient health-care providers, it’s sending registration links to people eligible for those shots.
“Unfortunately, it has come to [the Department of Health’s] attention that these links are being shared,” the Department of Health wrote.
Anyone going to an outpatient provider clinic will have to show ID and verify their employment, and anyone who doesn’t match a pre-approved list will be turned away.