RIDOH: Nursing home staff should be vaccinated in phases
STATE LEADERS are still working on a final plan for distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to the general population. After health care workers and the elderly, who deserves priority?/ AP PHOTO/TED S. WARREN PROVIDENCE – In the coming days, staff from Woonsocket-based CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens will soon be traveling to Rhode Island s long-term care facilities to begin vaccinating staff and residents, who include some of the hardest-hit individuals throughout the pandemic so far. Each facility in Rhode Island has opted into a federal program with the…
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The first COVID vaccinations in Rhode Island happened under the watchful eye of TV cameras, streamed live on national news.
Hundreds more followed once the circus left town: Lifespan, the state’s largest health-care system, had vaccinated 600 employees as of Wednesday, about 48 hours after the first shot went into the first deltoid muscle. Most of them happened at quiet clinics, chronicled not by professional reporters but eager selfies.
Lifespan expects to have 3,000 highest-risk employees vaccinated by the end of day on Tuesday at ongoing clinics. That represents the entirety of its first shipment of the new Pfizer vaccine, and most of its highest-risk employees.
Are school snow days officially over? Weâll find out this week
Rhode Island expects schools to shift to remote learning during inclement weather instead of giving students the day off
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated December 15, 2020, 8:40 a.m.
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Paul Mooney shovels snow outside his home, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Providence, R.I. Rhode Island is expecting one of the first big storms of 2020 this week.David Goldman/Associated Press
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