Saturday, January 16, 2021
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Saturday s GoLocal vaccination update provides the most up-to-date information and data on the Rhode Island vaccination program as well as emerging national and global developments.
1. According to the CDC and updated on Friday, RI Is Falling Behind: RI administered 47,548, doses (less than 3,000 administered in past 24-hours) Of the vaccine doses received, RI has utilized 44% a drop from 53%.
2. Wealthy Hospital Board Members Jump the Vaccination Priority List
Despite promises by the RI Department of Heath that vaccine doses would be targeted to medical professionals, first responders, nursing home staff and residents, etc. The Providence Journal unveiled that non-healthcare, wealthy donors and board members of Lifespan and trustees of Care New England received the opportunity to get vaccine shots out of turn a development that is sure to undermine any confidence in the state’s vaccine program.
Journal Staff
They were bankers and coaches, teachers and nurses, knitting enthusiasts and war veterans, a corrections lieutenant and two inmates. A Teamster, a pizza shop owner, an animal welfare activist. Loving mothers. Devoted fathers. Beloved sisters, dear brothers.
They lived in Foster and Central Falls and Providence and Pawtucket and Warwick and Cranston and Bristol and East Providence and Warren and Westerly and Johnston and North Providence and Barrington and Exeter and Woonsocket, just about everywhere in the state, in cities and towns and suburbs, in nursing homes and family houses.
For the most part they were older, fussing over the grandchildren who put a twinkle in their eyes, drinking cocktails and playing cards with their late-in-life romances, living out their twilight years before a preventable disease caused them to die too young.
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